Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >> Specifying the names of the keyword parameters costs you a little typing >> once, but saves everybody (including yourself) a lot of grief later when >> you're trying to figure out what the heck your code does 6 months later. > > Could you explain what is so hard in figuring out: > > func(,,4) > > We sure don't seem to have a problem with figuring out things like > > lst[::2]
That is the usual polemics. Its a HUGE difference if I'm supposed to remember 2 default values that are 0 and <size-of-sequence>, in a specialized syntax, than arbitrary values f(,,,,,3) in some arbitrary function. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
