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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients orsenthil, pitrou, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2013-03-18.22:49:17
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> 2. Making the rest of the arguments as keyword only arguments in order to
> prevent people doing mistakes. I am okay with this, people upgrading from
> 3.3, will face a problem if they already dont have a keyword only
> argument.

I thought about how to leave the parameter and imlicitly raise an exception, 
but your variant #2 is better. It is fully backward compatible and allows us 
to avoid the subtle error.
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2013-03-18 22:49:17serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, orsenthil, pitrou, python-dev
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