[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

[Mark Dickinson]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Okay;  I'll open an issue for deprecation in 3.2 and removal in 3.3.
>>
>> Can this sneak in under the 'incorrect language semantics' exemption
>> for PEP 3003 (the moratorium PEP)?  If not, then deprecation
>> presumably has to wait for 3.3.
>
> It seems that in spirit the moratorium applies more to language additions than
> to removals/limitations. The goal being that alternate implementation stop
> chasing a moving target in terms of features.
>
> So IMVHO it is fine for 3.2.

Removing it certainly seems in keeping with the goal of making life
easier for alternate implementations.  (Out of curiosity, does anyone
know what IronPython does here?)

I've opened http://bugs.python.org/issue8419

Mark