The proposal is to eliminate the redundancy of writing name=name repeatedly. But IMHO it doesn't do that consistently. That is it allows both forms mixed together, e.g.,
f(*, a, b, c=x, d, e) I believe this is confusing in part because the * need not be near the arguments it affects. Consider open(*, name='temp.txt', mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding='utf-8', errors) By the time you get to the last arg, you'll have forgotten the * at the beginning. If Python were to adopt a syntax to address this, I think it should be something like f(=a, =b, c=x, =d, =e) open(name='temp.txt', mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding='utf-8', =errors) Where an = in an argument list without a name in front of it uses the symbol on the right hand side as the name. --- Bruce
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