Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:04:41 -0400: > Consider this: > > def blackhole(*args, **kwds): pass > > The fact that it accept args that it ignores could be considered > misleading or even a bug.
Maybe, it could. But, it is by no means necessary. In mathematics, there is a set of important functions which behave precisely as described above (there ignore their arguments); they are called "constant functions".... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
