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Author rhartkopf
Recipients Martin.d'Anjou, Oliver.Smith, benschmaus, bethard, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, martin.panter, mburger, paul.j3, r.david.murray, rhartkopf, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2014-11-14.21:51:15
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Personally, 'options' is the first word that comes to mind other than 'arguments' (which is confusing for obvious reasons). But I think we can all agree that any of these candidates are less ambiguous than 'optional arguments'! It's been 4 years, let's put this one to bed!
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