[New-bugs-announce] [issue26334] bytes.translate() doesn't take keyword arguments; docs suggests it does

[Nicholas Chammas]

New submission from Nicholas Chammas:

The docs for `bytes.translate()` [0] show the following signature:

```
bytes.translate(table[, delete])
```

However, calling this method with keyword arguments yields:

```
>>> b''.translate(table='la table', delete=b'delete')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: translate() takes no keyword arguments
```

I'm guessing other methods have this same issue. (e.g. `str.translate()`)

Do the docs need to be updated, or should these methods be updated to accept keyword arguments, or something else?

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.translate

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 260034
nosy: Nicholas Chammas, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: bytes.translate() doesn't take keyword arguments; docs suggests it does
versions: Python 3.5

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