Larry Hastings <[email protected]> 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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