On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:52:52 +0000, Aaron Brady wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:17:28 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: >>> >>>> The purpose of a parameter is something that the caller can supply, >>>> but doesn't have to. It is not for internal-use-only items. >>> >>> Exactly! >> >> Says who? >> >> Using arguments for internal-use-only is a perfectly acceptable example >> of practicality beating purity. > > That's a stretch.
It's a standard Python idiom used by the standard library. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
