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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:02:43 +1000
Subject: Re: Argument of the bool function
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:54 PM, candide <candide@free.invalid> wrote:
> Anyway, passing x as a keyword argument to the bool function appears to be
> very rare : i did a regexp search for about 30000 source-code Python files
> (among them official Python source-code, Django, Sphinx, Eric source-code
> and many more sources of valuable Python code) and I didn't find even one.

Who would use keyword arguments with a function that takes only one arg anyway?

ChrisA