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Author	martin.panter
Recipients	SilentGhost, aroberge, docs@python, larry, martin.panter, random832
Date	2015-12-05.23:21:59
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Message-id	<1449357719.15.0.851741475118.issue25810@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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See Issue 8706 about changing functions and methods to accept keyword arguments. But this cannot be done in general. What would you call the first argument to dict() such that all possible keyword arguments still work? What is the first range() argument called: start or stop?

See Issue 8706 about changing functions and methods to accept keyword arguments. But this cannot be done in general. What would you call the first argument to dict() such that all possible keyword arguments still work? What is the first range() argument called: start or stop?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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