Allowing keyword arguments without defaults may seem like a syntactical change, but in fact it's not. You can do this in Python now - any argument can be a 'keyword' argument, whether it has a default value or not. So for example:
def func( a, b, c=0 ): pass func( a=1, b=2, c=3 ) In other words, the use of '=' to indicate a keyword argument, and the use of '=' to indicate a default argument value have *nothing* to do with each other, other than the fact that they both have the requirement that they have to come after positional arguments. If you wanted to require keyword-only arguments to have default values, that would require adding an additional check, which would be a syntactical change. -- Talin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
