On 5/2/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On 5/2/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > make_person(=name, =age, =phone, =location) > > > > And even with Terry's use case quoted I can't make out what you meant > > that to do. > > I meant it to do the same thing as > > make_person(name=name, age=age, phone=phone, location=location) > > I come across use cases for this fairly frequently, usually > when I have an __init__ method that supplies default values > for a bunch of arguments, and then wants to pass them on to > an inherited __init__ with the same names. It feels very > wanky having to write out all those foo=foo expressions.
Sorry, but leading = signs feel even more wanky. (That's a technical term. ;-) It violates the guideline that Python's punctuation should preferably mimic English; or other mainstram languages (as with 'x.y' and '@deco'). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
