[Python-Dev] PEP 433: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Charles-François Natali
<cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> PEP: 433
>> Title: Add cloexec argument to functions creating file descriptors
>
> I'm not a native English speaker, but it seems to me that the correct
> wording should be "parameter" (part of the function
> definition/prototype, whereas "argument" refers to the actual value
> supplied).

Yes, this distinction is now reflected in our glossary as of a month
or two ago.  Let's try to be consistent with that. :)

--Chris