[docs] [issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args
Ezio Melotti
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Tue Nov 15 15:15:32 CET 2011
Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:
> Me too. (Can you give the #ids of these other issues?)
See for example #13012.
> I think we should fix C functions to accept kwargs for the sake of
> Python programmers, not merely to ease documentation (that would just
> be a nice side-effect :)
And also for compatibility for other implementations like PyPy. I'm still not sure that is a good idea to do a mass conversion of all the functions though.
> Sphinx lets us give multiple signatures. I’ve just checked that this
> markup is valid and does not create duplicate index entries
This is something I was considering, but I'm afraid it might get too verbose (and introduce yet another convention). Sometimes this feature is also (mis?)used to group similar functions.
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