On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 5:08 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:50:30PM +0200, Alex Hall wrote: > > > > > > And what would you do if you wanted to call: > > > > > > self.do_something(positional, keyword=keyword, keyword1=somethingelse, > > > keyword2=keyword2) > > > > > > ? > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > I think this is still pretty clear: > > > > self.do_something(positional, *, keyword, keyword1=somethingelse, > keyword2) > > It's not clear to me. It's currently (3.8) illegal syntax, and I have no > idea what the `*` would mean in the function call. > Of course it's currently illegal syntax, that's the point. I don't think you really need to know what it means to read the code for most purposes. You look at the function call and you can see a bunch of names being passed to self.do_something. If the function call has 'keyword=keyword' in it instead of just 'keyword', that's not adding much information. The technical details of how an argument is being passed are usually not important to readers. > I know what it means in function definitions, but somehow we seem to > have (accidentally?) flipped from talking about Rhodi's dislike of the > `*` in function *definitions* to an (imaginary? proposed?) use of `*` in > function *calls*. > > Have I missed something? > Something weird seems to have happened in this thread. Rodrigo first proposed the magic asterisk syntax here: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/N2ZY5NQ5T2OJRSUGZJOANEQOGEQIYYIK/ There were some replies discussing that proposal, including objections, to which I responded: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KTJBGO3N3K736YO3B3E4U7BKE5KV2BIY/ For some reason Ricky called it my suggestion when it was Rodrigo's: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/QYC6F45ZFX2BX56ZJKY7FJOJNP7UUJIN/ And now it looks like you missed it too.
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