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Title: actual-parameters *arg, **kws not doc'd
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Status: closed Resolution: accepted
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Assigned To: mwh Nosy List: aleax, fdrake, jhylton, mwh
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Created on 2001-06-01 15:20 by aleax, last changed 2022-04-10 16:04 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg4928 - (view) Author: Alex Martelli (aleax) * (Python committer) Date: 2001-06-01 15:20
5.3.4 in the language reference should document the 
forms *args and **kwds for actual parameters, but it 
makes no mention of them and does not allow for them 
in the syntax productions.
msg4929 - (view) Author: Fred Drake (fdrake) (Python committer) Date: 2001-06-01 15:38
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Assigned to Jeremy, since he shepharded the patch into the
Python release.  Changes should be integrated with the 2.1.1
and head branches.
msg4930 - (view) Author: Jeremy Hylton (jhylton) (Python triager) Date: 2001-06-06 22:46
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I made a little progress on this pre-parenthood.
msg4931 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-11 16:16
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Here's an attempt.

I haven't tried compiling it, as I haven't got that setup on
this machine yet, but I think it should be OK.  Fred may
want to fix some markup.

It does elevate some implementation accidents in the
interaction of *args and keyword arguments to documented
fact, which may or may not be what's wanted.
msg4932 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-11 16:17
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Here's an attempt.

I haven't tried compiling it, as I haven't got that setup on
this machine yet, but I think it should be OK.  Fred may
want to fix some markup.

It does elevate some implementation accidents in the
interaction of *args and keyword arguments to documented
fact, which may or may not be what's wanted.
msg4933 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-11 16:17
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Oh, sod sf, I'll email it to python-docs.
msg4934 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-11 17:35
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Ah!  sf's error message for trying to attach an empty file
(doh) could be more informative than "invalid filename"...
msg4935 - (view) Author: Fred Drake (fdrake) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-11 20:24
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Michael, this is good.  Please check this in and close this
report.  I really appreciate the help!
msg4936 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2001-12-12 11:57
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Checked in as revision 1.52 of Doc/ref/ref5.tex.

Glad to be of assistance!
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