[Python-Dev] A grammatical oddity: trailing commas in argument lists.

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 02:22:08 CEST 2010


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> This violates the important principle that allowed def and call arg
> sequences should match to the extent sensible and possible. In this sense,
> the SyntaxError is a bug. So I would fix this now for 3.2 and notify the
> other implementors.

+1 for fixing it from me, unless any of the other implementations object.

@Mark: my comment on the tracker issue had an implied "...unless you
really want to" on the end :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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