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[Neil Girdhar]

The admonition is against syntax that currently exists.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Feb 09, 2015, at 07:46 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>
> >Also, regarding calling argument order, not any order is allowed.  Regular
> >arguments must precede other kinds of arguments.  Keyword arguments must
> >precede **-args.  *-args must precede **-args.   However, I agree with
> >Antoine that PEP 8 should be updated to suggest that *-args should precede
> >any keyword arguments.  It is currently allowed to write f(x=2, *args),
> >which is equivalent to f(*args, x=2).
>
> But if we have to add a PEP 8 admonition against some syntax that's being
> newly added, why is this an improvement?
>
> I had some more snarky/funny comments to make, but I'll just say -1.  The
> Rationale in the PEP doesn't sell me on it being an improvement to Python.
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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