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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, georg.brandl
Date	2008-04-22.16:49:01
SpamBayes Score	0.10277092
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Message-id	<1208882945.04.0.253062304574.issue2668@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Current Doc/library/functions.rst says "The use of apply() is exactly equivalent to function(args, keywords)." which is no longer correct because f(args, **keywords) notation allows use of an arbitrary mapping as keywords in 2.6, but apply(f, args, keywords) does not. I don't think changing the code to allow arbitrary mapping in apply is worth the trouble and even mentioning this difference explicitly in the apply() docs is probably not justified. My recommendation is to just s/exactly equivalent/equivalent/ in the sentence quote above.

Current Doc/library/functions.rst says "The use of apply() is exactly
equivalent to function(*args, **keywords)." which is no longer correct
because f(*args, **keywords) notation allows use of an arbitrary mapping
as keywords in 2.6, but apply(f, args, keywords) does not.

I don't think changing the code to allow arbitrary mapping in apply is
worth the trouble and even mentioning this difference explicitly in the
apply() docs is probably not justified.

My recommendation is to just s/exactly equivalent/equivalent/ in the
sentence quote above.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-22 16:49:05	belopolsky	set	spambayes_score: 0.102771 -> 0.10277092 recipients: + belopolsky, georg.brandl
2008-04-22 16:49:05	belopolsky	set	spambayes_score: 0.102771 -> 0.102771 messageid: <1208882945.04.0.253062304574.issue2668@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-22 16:49:03	belopolsky	link	issue2668 messages
2008-04-22 16:49:02	belopolsky	create