On Jun 18, 5:25 pm, MisterWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that in PEP 3105, the PEP about turning print to print(), > the syntax for print() is defined as follows: > def print(*args, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None) > > Ignoring the fact that print is a reserved keyword in python, this is > not valid python because extra positional arguments (*args), cannot > come before optional parameters (sep=' ', end='\n', file=None). > > >>> def f(*args, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None): > > File "<stdin>", line 1 > def f(*args, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None): > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Am I misunderstanding something? Is this type of syntax suppose to be > allowed in a future version of Python? (I can't find anything about > this through my searching.)
You didn't search hard enough; it's three PEPs earlier: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3102/ George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
