Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: I'm not sure I'm wild about the *args parameter. Calling "Fred" the 0-th parameter here seems non-intuitive:
"My name is {0}".format_using_mapping({}, 'Fred') If you're going to have *args, why not **kwargs and then merge/update the dicts? I'm being facetious, but I think even having *args is feature creep. I think it's time to ask about this on python-dev. I'd vote for not using *args. It can always be added in the future if it's seen as a hole in the API. ---------- stage: test needed -> patch review _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6081> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com