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Author Oliver.Smith
Recipients Martin.d'Anjou, Oliver.Smith, benschmaus, bethard, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, martin.panter, mburger, paul.j3, r.david.murray, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2014-09-02.20:25:02
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The term "optional arguments" is a poorly formed adjectival suffix of "option". What it's trying to say is "these are kwargs" rather than "these arguments are not compulsory".

I ran into this issue with 3.4 and was looking to file a simple change request:

In early DOS/Linux days we called these "switches". I suggest we simply change the default wording from "optional arguments" to "switches".
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2014-09-02 20:25:03Oliver.Smithsetrecipients: + Oliver.Smith, rhettinger, terry.reedy, bethard, eric.smith, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, docs@python, benschmaus, tshepang, martin.panter, paul.j3, mburger, Martin.d'Anjou
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