[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Change by Louis Sautier : -- nosy: +sbraz nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 pull_requests: +28201 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29976 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Change by Xiang Zhang : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset fa3fd4cb181120007aefc408366c0cef6fb62f9d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-34434: Update doc for bool(), float() and int() arguments (GH-8834) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fa3fd4cb181120007aefc408366c0cef6fb62f9d

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

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[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Xiang Zhang added the comment: New changeset 3fe89dac42809a7741d50ebf595be98833b79b97 by Xiang Zhang (Louis Sautier) in branch 'master': bpo-34434: Update doc for bool(), float() and int() arguments (GH-8834) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3fe89dac42809a7741d50ebf595be98833b79b97

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > I'm not saying *no* documentation of the change is needed, > but I am saying, for list/tuple, the What's New note is > sufficient to cover it for those people who went mucking > through the CPython source code to find an undocumented > keyword they

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: For tuple and list, no, they couldn't have looked at the help (because the help calls the argument "iterable", while the only keyword accepted was "sequence"). Nor was "sequence" documented in the online docs, nor anywhere else that I can find; it was

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Brett Cannon added the comment: Please don't use over-the-top language like "completely unjustifiable" because it is unnecessary and in this case wrong. We treat our documentation as a recording of the semantics of the stdlib as well as a recording of what semantic changes occurred between

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: Oh, I was checking old docs when I said the online docs didn't call int's argument "x"; the current docs do, so int, float and bool all justify a change (barely), it's just tuple and list for which it's completely unjustifiable. --

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: Bloating the documentation is almost certainly unjustifiable for list and tuple, and only barely justifiable for int, bool and float, given that: 1. The documentation (at least for Python 3) has *never* claimed the arguments could be passed by keyword (all

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Change by Louis Sautier : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +8320 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue34434] Removal of kwargs for built-in types not covered with "changed in Python" note in documentation

Brett Cannon added the comment: Any interest in submitting a pull request to update the documentation? -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +brett.cannon, docs@python title: Removal of kwargs for int() etc not described as change -> Removal of kwargs for