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Author martin.panter
Recipients baptiste.carvello, chris.jerdonek, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, martin.panter, petri.lehtinen, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-20.02:25:31
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When a parameter is optional but does not have a simple default value, I suggest using some obviously invalid pseudocode, such as

function(arg1, arg2=<automatic, see text>)

See Issue 8706 about adding more support for keyword arguments. See also Issue 23738 for signatures that incorrectly appear to accept keywords due to including default values, and PEP 457’s slash (/) indicator for documenting positional-only parameters.
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2015-04-20 02:25:31martin.pantersetrecipients: + martin.panter, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, eric.smith, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, chris.jerdonek, docs@python, eric.snow, baptiste.carvello, petri.lehtinen
2015-04-20 02:25:31martin.pantersetmessageid: <1429496731.21.0.238462293514.issue13386@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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