[Python-ideas] Positional only arguments

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon May 21 10:18:58 CEST 2007


On 5/21/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Also, your proposal assigns two quite different meanings
> to *. If it's followed by a name, it sucks up all remaining
> positional args, but if it's not, it can't suck up
> anything, since it's followed by more positional args!

Note this is also true of the * in PEP 3102.

STeVe
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