[Python-ideas] Positional only arguments

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, George Sakkis wrote:
 > single "delimiter" symbol (e.g. '%') between pos-only and pos-or-kw
 > would kill both birds with one stone, i.e. something like:

A delimeter that would be needed anyway would make this a little nicer:

  def myfunc(a, b, c=24; *, kw=42):
      pass

This example would have 3 positional-only arguments (a, b, c) and one 
keyword-only argument (kw).

Replacing the comma with a semicolon avoids the need for a syntax-only 
position (good, IMO), avoids introducing a new special character, and re-uses 
one that's rarely used anyway.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>