On 12 July 2010 15:49, Huy Ton That <huyslo...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is going to sound silly, but I realized there are some areas within > the documentation that do not make absolute sense to me. > > e.g. > > compile(source, filename, mode[, flags[, dont_inherit]]) > > I see within this built in function, the first argument can be what they > define as source, the second argument as the filename and the third as the > mode. > > But what confuses me is sometimes I see a bracket, above as [, flags[, > dont_inherit]]. Is this an optional argument like flags=dont_inherit? > > Just not grokking it correctly and I can't seem to track down where the > documentation formatting is defined within the python.org documentation... > > You're about right really, it's a keyword argument which means it will have a default so you can specify it or leave the default by ignoring it.
HTH, Adam.
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