Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
[Robert] > It is not a "positional argument" but an "optional argument". I don't think I understand. Here the phrase "positional argument" in the docs is, I assume, referring to the parameter "ham: str" in the parameter list. So it's not optional; it's a required, positional-or-keyword parameter. I don't know whether the text of this section should be being tightened up with respect to the distinction between (formal) parameters and actual arguments, though. There's a tradeoff between readability and accessibility on the one hand, and technical accuracy on the other. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39231> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
