Chris Angelico writes:
Look at the real-world examples that I posted and tell me what I should be doing differently, if it's an anti-pattern to be discouraged.
IIRC, you didn't post real-world examples relevant to Paul's comment because you posted only the call sites. So, for example, if a function call you posted were refactored to a local function (perhaps using a nonlocal declaration, though cases where that's necessary should be rare), you wouldn't need to pass those arguments at all. Also, see my earlier post for one kind of style change (specifically, taking advantage of comprehensions rather than writing a marshalling function) I've made that means recently I do a lot less same naming. That one's explicitly related to the dict subthread, but it's also true that in my code marshalling functions used to be a substantial source of same name game (though I typically called them with positional parameters by copying the prototype a la Rick Teachey, and so avoided the kind of code you posted). Granted, it's not so easy to avoid that with third party functions, but I personally have rarely had that kind of issue with library functions, whether from the stdlib or from PyPI. Steve