On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:28:51PM -0000, [email protected] wrote:

> Do you know if there has been discussions around why is the default 
> argument is positional only in the dict methods get and pop?

Its probably just left over from earlier versions of Python when builtin 
functions only used positional arguments.

Positional arguments are a little faster than keyword arguments, and 
especially for builtin functions, easier to program.

You could try making an enhancement request on the bug tracker and see 
if any one is willing to do the work.

-- 
Steve
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