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Author larry
Recipients Arfrever, georg.brandl, hynek, larry, pitrou, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2012-07-03.05:27:07
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Message-id <1341293228.71.0.126707116167.issue15202@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> What's the urge to make parameters keyword-only?

I suggest that boolean parameters are best made keyword-only.  Otherwise you have mystery meat like

shutil.copyfile("src", "dst", True)

Also, all the extant uses of "follow_symlinks" in os are keyword-only, and as long as it's a new parameter it'd be nice to keep it consistent.
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2012-07-03 05:27:08larrysetrecipients: + larry, georg.brandl, pitrou, Arfrever, r.david.murray, hynek, serhiy.storchaka
2012-07-03 05:27:08larrysetmessageid: <1341293228.71.0.126707116167.issue15202@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-07-03 05:27:08larrylinkissue15202 messages
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