New submission from Marco Rougeth <ma...@rougeth.com>: Reading the documentation for `dbm.gnu.open` I noticed that there were a typo in the `flags` argument, it was documented as `flag`, in plural form.
The same typo was present for `dbm.ndbm.open`, but in this case, `flag` makes more sense than `flags`, since the function accepts only one option as a flag. I opened a PR [1] fixing both typos, but I’d like to discuss if makes sense to rename the argument on `dbm.ndbm.open` from `flags` to `flag`. As point out by @remilapeyre, this change would be backwards compatible, since we cannot use the function with keyword arguments. >>> dbm.ndbm.open(filename=‘foo’, flags=‘r’, mode=438) Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module> TypeError: open() takes no keyword arguments What do you folks think about it? 1 - https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12095 ---------- messages: 338097 nosy: rougeth priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Argument typo in dam.ndbm.open type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36322> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
