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

[Greg Ewing]

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> would have thought that the one obvious way to get rid of
> the wanky feeling would have been to write:
> 
> def make_person(name, age, phone, location): ...
> 
> make_person(name, age, phone, location)

This doesn't fly in something like PyGUI, where there
are literally dozens of potential arguments to many
of the constructors. The only sane way to deal with
that is for them to be keyword-only, at least
conceptually if not in actual implementation.

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