[issue36744] functools.singledispatch: Shouldn't require a positional argument if there is only one keyword argument

Tim Mitchell added the comment: I would really prefer the dispatch logic remains simple and fast, rather than handle single keyword arguments. -- nosy: +Tim Mitchell2 ___ Python tracker

[issue36744] functools.singledispatch: Shouldn't require a positional argument if there is only one keyword argument

Kevin added the comment: I have read issue33967 before posting this one. The error message was introduced there, but the behavior hasn't changed. The problem that issue33967 solves is that while singledispatch requires at least one positional argument, there was no explicit error message

[issue36744] functools.singledispatch: Shouldn't require a positional argument if there is only one keyword argument

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: This was introduced as part of issue33967. -- nosy: +doerwalter, inada.naoki, lukasz.langa, xtreak ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36744] functools.singledispatch: Shouldn't require a positional argument if there is only one keyword argument

New submission from Kevin : Passing a single argument as a keyword argument to a function decorated with @functools.singledispatch results in an error: $ python Python 3.7.2 (default, Feb 12 2019, 08:15:36) [Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or