Op 2006-03-10, Roy Smith schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "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.
Could you explain what is so hard in figuring out: func(,,4) We sure don't seem to have a problem with figuring out things like lst[::2] Personnaly in a situation where it is likely that the first parameter is going to take a default and the second parameter is going to vary a lot, I would have prefered that to be visible in how the function is called, instead of a call with only one argument being interpreted as being the value for the second parameter. More specifically I would have preferred the possibility of range(,n) and this being equivallent to range(0,n) instead of range(n) being equivallent to range(0,n). -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
