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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	Shmuel, docs@python, mark.dickinson
Date	2017-01-30.09:06:27
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Message-id	<1485767187.73.0.152162258163.issue29389@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think you're misreading the signature. The '*' is not a parameter in its own right; it's a piece of syntax marking the end of the positional parameters. Everything following that can only be passed by keyword. See PEP 3102 for an explanation of the syntax.

I think you're misreading the signature. The '*' is not a parameter in its own right; it's a piece of syntax marking the end of the positional parameters. Everything following that can only be passed by keyword.  See PEP 3102 for an explanation of the syntax.

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