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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Arfrever, benjamin.peterson, larry, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2012-04-20.04:45:47
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No, Guido's boolean keyword dislike is not about things being unclear at the call site.  It's about boolean parameters instead of separate functions.  That is (I believe) he prefers lstat/stat to having stat take a boolean keyword, keyword-only or not.

Did he weigh in on the python-ideas thread?
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