Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> added the comment:

> What's the urge to make parameters keyword-only?

I suggest that boolean parameters are best made keyword-only.  Otherwise you 
have mystery meat like

shutil.copyfile("src", "dst", True)

Also, all the extant uses of "follow_symlinks" in os are keyword-only, and as 
long as it's a new parameter it'd be nice to keep it consistent.

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