[Python-ideas] Short form for keyword arguments and dicts

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/24/2013 06:22 PM, MRAB wrote:
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> Why not just add a single marker followed by the names, something like this:
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>      return get_special_url(special='appdir', =, per_user, for_domain, create)

Interesting idea.  Similar to using the '*' to only allow keyword arguments.

Rather than having '*' in the `def` and '=' at the call-site, why not use the '*' in both places?  Then it would mean 
'only keyword-arguments allowed' and 'these names are the keyword arguments'.  Because the variable names are the same 
as the keyword names we're not losing anything.

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~Ethan~