Laura Creighton writes:
> In a message of Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:04:46 +1000, Ben Finney writes:
> >Since the introduction of keyword-only arguments in Python functions,
> >the question arises of how to communicate this in documentation.
>
> I suppose it is way too late to scream "I hate keyword-onl
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> The full signature is:
>
> edir([object [, glob=''] [, dunders=True] [, meta=False]])
>
> All four arguments are optional, and dunders and meta are
> keyword-only.
The official documentation seems to prefer this style::
edit(object, glob='', *, dunders=True, meta=F
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>> The full signature is:
>>
>> edir([object [, glob=''] [, dunders=True] [, meta=False]])
>>
>> All four arguments are optional, and dunders and meta are
>> keyword-only.
>
> The official documentation seems to prefer
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>> The full signature is:
>>
>> edir([object [, glob=''] [, dunders=True] [, meta=False]])
>>
>> All four arguments are optional, and dunders and meta are
>> keyword-only.
>
> The official documentation seems to prefe
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015, at 20:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Mostly. That would imply that object is a mandatory parameter, which
> AIUI isn't the case for Steven's edir. The downside of this kind of
> signature is that it's hard to show the parameters that have unusual
> defaults (either sentinel objec
In a message of Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:04:46 +1000, Ben Finney writes:
>Since the introduction of keyword-only arguments in Python functions,
>the question arises of how to communicate this in documentation.
I suppose it is way too late to scream "I hate keyword-only arguments"!
>The lone asterisk s
