[Python-checkins] bpo-36546: No longer a need to make "data" positional only (GH-16252) (GH-16253)

[Raymond Hettinger]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/31af1cce9d799475ba8c3dec3e239b4a75ce268f
commit: 31af1cce9d799475ba8c3dec3e239b4a75ce268f
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2019-09-17T21:06:53-07:00
summary:

bpo-36546: No longer a need to make "data" positional only (GH-16252) (GH-16253)

(cherry picked from commit 272d0d017aef585acf84bb0af99a90a2a8582b2c)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Lib/statistics.py

diff --git a/Lib/statistics.py b/Lib/statistics.py
index 70c48d605d19..d81596e5d8ab 100644
--- a/Lib/statistics.py
+++ b/Lib/statistics.py
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ def multimode(data):
 # position is that fewer options make for easier choices and that
 # external packages can be used for anything more advanced.
 
-def quantiles(data, /, *, n=4, method='exclusive'):
+def quantiles(data, *, n=4, method='exclusive'):
     """Divide *data* into *n* continuous intervals with equal probability.
 
     Returns a list of (n - 1) cut points separating the intervals.