[New-bugs-announce] [issue15966] concurrent.futures: Executor.submit keyword arguments may not be called 'fn' (or 'self')

[Mark Dickinson]

New submission from Mark Dickinson:

The submit methods of concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor and concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExectutor raise TypeError when submitting a callable with a keyword argument named 'fn' or 'self':

    Python 3.3.0rc2+ (default:3a880d640981, Sep 18 2012, 16:29:28) 
    [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import concurrent.futures
    >>> def awkward(*, fn): return fn * 1729
    ... 
    >>> with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(1) as e:
    ...     e.submit(awkward, fn=3)
    ... 
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
    TypeError: submit() got multiple values for argument 'fn'


An obvious solution is to change the declarations of the submit methods from:

    def submit(self, fn, *args, **kwargs):
        ...

to

    def submit(*args, **kwargs):
        self, fn, *args = args


I don't think this is quite good enough, since it'll introduce a regression for anyone who was doing executor.submit(fn=...).

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messages: 170650
nosy: mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: concurrent.futures: Executor.submit keyword arguments may not be called 'fn' (or 'self')
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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