"Dmitry Anikin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are often situations when a function has independent > parameters, all having reasonable defaults, and I want to > provide just several of them. In fact, I can do it using > keyword parameters, but it's rather long and you have to > remember/lookup names of parameters.
Specifying the names of the keyword parameters costs you a little typing once, but saves everybody (including yourself) a lot of grief later when you're trying to figure out what the heck your code does 6 months later. > I badly need this feature in embedded python app (for > compatibility with other language that uses such syntax) Can you tell us more about what it is that you're trying to do? > Or maybe it might be an idea for enhancement proposal? You can always write up a PEP, but to be honest, this doesn't sound like one that would meet with much enthusiasm from the community. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
