RUN is a global constant, and the method is documented, explaining why the parameter is there:
# Copy globals as function locals to make sure that they are available # during Python shutdown when the Pool is destroyed. def __del__(self, _warn=warnings.warn, RUN=RUN): From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+gweatherby=uchc....@python.org> on behalf of Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Friday, November 11, 2022 at 2:42 PM To: python-list@python.org <python-list@python.org> Subject: Re: Argument name should be lowercase *** Attention: This is an external email. Use caution responding, opening attachments or clicking on links. *** "Weatherby,Gerard" <gweathe...@uchc.edu> writes: >I'd personally find it weird to see an all-cap parameter In the source code of the standard library, all-caps notation is used for a parameter name sometimes if that parameter name is "URL" or sometimes when it is being initialized from an all-caps name as in: |def __del__(self, _warn=warnings.warn, RUN=RUN): | if self._state == RUN: ... from "pool.py". ("RUN=RUN" makes RUN have the value "RUN" had at the time of the definition of the function.) -- https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list__;!!Cn_UX_p3!kI1c1EIpXCtnz0SBHvQmJokWXPBo0rCY9MQ-IwXOZU4RyHqqKho9wMu6Ekj6GMXA0EbReT8_4GOxvoldiOsL3W8$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list__;!!Cn_UX_p3!kI1c1EIpXCtnz0SBHvQmJokWXPBo0rCY9MQ-IwXOZU4RyHqqKho9wMu6Ekj6GMXA0EbReT8_4GOxvoldiOsL3W8$> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list