The standard library
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 5 01:27:33 EDT 2001
Quinn Dunkan wrote:
>
> And a lot of C functions that could (and should) accept keyword arguments
> don't. Even when the docs suggest they do, they don't. For example, you
> should be able to write 'foo bar baz'.split(maxsplit=1)
As long as there's a difference, there should be a documentation
convention to distinguish between argument names which are
keywords and those which aren't.
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