Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> added the comment: Amaury & Georg,
Grepping through the docs disagrees with your claims ;-) Try to grep for "\=None\]" to see what I mean. There are tons of places where default values are placed inside the brackets. For example in http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html --> look at: sniff(sample[, delimiters=None]) or even: class csv.DictReader(csvfile[, fieldnames=None[, restkey=None[, restval=None[, dialect='excel'[, *args, **kwds]]]]]) That said, I have absolutely no objections to following an accepted convention. But what is it? I looked around, and found the following in the documentation guide: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/documenting/fromlatex.html There is no optional command. Just give function signatures like they should appear in the output: .. function:: open(filename[, mode[, buffering]]) Description. This (taken from the 3.3 guide) mentions the 2.x guideline and doesn't mention default values. So what should I do here? According to Ezio's earlier message, the new style (without brackets) is also being used in Python 2 now. I can do the switch for the 're' module, but can we first get the convention documented somewhere? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12875> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
