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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients baptiste.carvello, docs@python, eli.bendersky, eric.araujo, eric.smith, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, petri.lehtinen, terry.reedy
Date 2011-11-15.14:15:31
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> Me too.  (Can you give the #ids of these other issues?)

See for example #13012.

> I think we should fix C functions to accept kwargs for the sake of 
> Python programmers, not merely to ease documentation (that would just 
> be a nice side-effect :)

And also for compatibility for other implementations like PyPy.  I'm still not sure that is a good idea to do a mass conversion of all the functions though.

> Sphinx lets us give multiple signatures.  I’ve just checked that this 
> markup is valid and does not create duplicate index entries

This is something I was considering, but I'm afraid it might get too verbose (and introduce yet another convention).  Sometimes this feature is also (mis?)used to group similar functions.
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2011-11-15 14:15:32ezio.melottisetrecipients: + ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, eric.smith, eric.araujo, eli.bendersky, docs@python, eric.snow, baptiste.carvello, petri.lehtinen
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