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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	Arfrever, bob.ippolito, ezio.melotti, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2013-09-01.06:46:52
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Message-id	<1378018012.89.0.0306353775512.issue18726@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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-1 Once the positional arguments are in the wild, you can't take them away without breaking a lot of code. This code was available as a third-party module prior to inclusion in Python and had many happy users. If the positional arguments had been a sticking point, it would have been known long ago. The time to express these concerns is when a module is being added. Afterwards, the API churn just isn't worth it. We don't want to create more obstacles to upgrading or converting from Python 2.

-1 Once the positional arguments are in the wild, you can't take them away without breaking a lot of code. 

This code was available as a third-party module prior to inclusion in Python and had many happy users.  If the positional arguments had been a sticking point, it would have been known long ago.

The time to express these concerns is when a module is being added.  Afterwards, the API churn just isn't worth it.  We don't want to create more obstacles to upgrading or converting from Python 2.

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