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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> 
>>The actual syntax would be
>>
>>  [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3]
>
> I don't get how to map that to Python's syntax.

It's roughly morally equivalent to

    object.method(arg1, withSomething = arg2, withSomethingElse = arg3)

But there are several reasons why it's not really equivalent
to that. PyObjC actually maps it to

    object.method_withSomething_withSomethingElse_(arg1, arg2, arg3)

which is very close to what Objective C is doing under the hood.

-- 
Greg