Probably for adding other arguments later without braking function signature?
I'm with you on this one, though. Using kwargs everywhere it's possible really
helps developing using Django. Maybe this is a subject for
django-develop...@googlegroups.com.
> On 15 Dec 2016, at 15:39, Alexey Gerasimov <lokomot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Why "flat" keyword is accepted that way? Why not just as def
> values_list(self, *fields, flat=False)? Because of that I cannot have support
> in my IDE (autocomplete)
>
> def values_list(self, *fields, **kwargs):
> flat = kwargs.pop('flat', False)
> if kwargs:
> raise TypeError('Unexpected keyword arguments to values_list: %s'
> % (list(kwargs),))
>
> if flat and len(fields) > 1:
> raise TypeError("'flat' is not valid when values_list is called
> with more than one field.")
>
> _fields = []
> expressions = {}
>
> for field in fields:
> if hasattr(field, 'resolve_expression'):
> field_id = str(id(field))
> expressions[field_id] = field
> _fields.append(field_id)
> else:
> _fields.append(field)
>
> clone = self._values(*_fields, **expressions)
> clone._iterable_class = FlatValuesListIterable if flat else
> ValuesListIterable
> return clone
>
>
>
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