What is the "Unpacking Arguments List" rule?

[Jach Fong]

Alister via Python-list at 2018/6/13 PM 08:43 wrote:
>> IMHO, there is no reason to check the *args has to appear at last in
>> positional argument list in a function call because of there is no
>> "unknown number of parameters" at the time of unpacking. It should be
>> alright to write line 19
>>       action(*args, progress)
> 
> Anyone wanting to write such code should be banned form ever accessing a
> computer.

     Won't it be too hard to this guy:-)

> if you know how many arguments are going to be passed to match the *args
> part of this function then they should be assigned known variables
> otherwise the code will soon become an unmanageable mess.

     I think it's depend on the situation.

> this is why the language specifications states it should only appear
> after all known positional arguments have been declared

     To a function call, where the spec is?

--Jach

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