[Python-ideas] What's going on with PEP 448 - Additional Unpacking Generalizations ?

[Neil Girdhar]

Also, if after PEP 448, you can do

f(*a, *b, *c)

and you can always do

f(a,
  b,
  c,
 )

then why shouldn't you be able to do

f(*a,
  *b,
  *c,
 )

?


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> oops, I mean, currently we can do
>
> f(1, d=4, *[1,2], **{})
>
> I'm asking about the others…
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been working on the patch for PEP 448.  Are the restrictions on the
>> order of arguments in a function call partially or fully lifted?
>>
>>
>> Currently, we can do:
>> def f(a, b, c, d):
>>     pass
>>
>> f(1, d=4, *[1,2], 2, **{})
>>
>> After PEP 448 can we do:
>>
>> f(1, d=4, *[2], c=3, **{})
>>
>> ?
>>
>> --
>>
>> ---
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the
>> Google Groups "python-ideas" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-ideas/J99EFY1D1nI/unsubscribe.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
>> python-ideas+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Python-ideas mailing list
>> Python-ideas at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas
>> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
>>
>> --
>>
>> ---
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the
>> Google Groups "python-ideas" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-ideas/J99EFY1D1nI/unsubscribe.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
>> python-ideas+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20150120/41b1ea69/attachment.html>