Martin Panter added the comment: Modifying the API to accept a keyword argument is not worthwhile IMO. That means modifying modules like http.client and zipfile (which use the wrong keyword name), and user-defined implementations may become incompatible.
The question of documentation is discussed more in Issue 23738. I think one or two people were concerned about using the Arg Clinic slash. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23214> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com