Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I think a positional-only argument would be the best option if we could do it, but it would be a backwards-incompatible change and it's probably not worth the hassle. If anyone is using the keyword argument, they're probably using `format=` rather than `fmt=`, since it's pretty rare for anyone to use the pure python version of datetime. PyPy uses it, but I think they tend to aim for consistency with the C API of CPython, and it seems like they already patch s/fmt/format/ themselves: https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/blob/branch/default/lib_pypy/datetime.py#L781 If anyone wants to make a PR I think we can fix this for 3.10, though unfortunately because it is an API change it can't be backported. I think in typeshed they can safely change from `fmt` to `format` even today (which would almost certainly be more accurate to end user use cases). ---------- nosy: -rkm stage: -> needs patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41260> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
