On May 5, 2015 11:05 AM, "Neil Girdhar" <mistersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe they should have written their code with **kwargs that consumes all keyword arguments rather than assuming that no keyword arguments would be added? The problem with this approach in general is that it makes writing code unnecessarily convoluted.
If the user asked for keepdims=True, then silently ignoring this is worse than raising an error. And I guess I would call this making code necessarily convoluted :-). There are not that many options for evolving an interface shared by multiple unrelated libraries. -n
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