[Python-Dev] PEP 3102: Keyword-only arguments

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> >    make_person(=name, =age, =phone, =location)
> 
> And even with Terry's use case quoted I can't make out what you meant
> that to do.

I meant it to do the same thing as

   make_person(name=name, age=age, phone=phone, location=location)

I come across use cases for this fairly frequently, usually
when I have an __init__ method that supplies default values
for a bunch of arguments, and then wants to pass them on to
an inherited __init__ with the same names. It feels very
wanky having to write out all those foo=foo expressions.

--
Greg