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To: Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: Documenting a function signature (was: Set a flag on the function or a global?)
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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 showing the separation of keyword-only arguments from
>the rest is confusing to me. Not least because it is (if I understand
>correctly) invalid syntax to actually have that in Python code.

Me too.

Laura