New subject: Improving this? - foo() takes at least 6 arguments (6 given)

3 Sep 2011


      On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Eli Stevens (Gmail)
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Ethan Furman  wrote:
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Colleague:  "So my code is apparently asking for 6 arguments and it
appears that I gave it 6 arguments"
Me:  "Oh that - Yeah... your short one.  It really wants 7.."
How did you get this?
Having seen this bite someone recently, I have an example readily at hand:
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def f(a,b,c,d=None): pass
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f(1,2,d=4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: f() takes at least 3 arguments (3 given)
Isn't this already fixed for Python 3.3?

Python 3.3.0a0 (default:a8748022504f, Sep  2 2011, 12:32:36)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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def f(a, b, c, d=None): pass
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f(1, 2, d=4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: f() missing 1 required positional argument: 'c'
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Improving this? - foo() takes at least 6 arguments (6 given)

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