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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Michal Plichta, docs@python, r.david.murray, vinay.sajip
Date 2017-12-07.05:10:37
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It does matter, though, because in Python you can specify a positional argument as if it were a keyword argument if you use the name from the source rather than the documented name.  We have made other doc corrections along these lines.  We've even done it for C functions where you can't specify the argument as if it were a keyword argument, though that is considerably more rare.

That's a different question from the question of whether typing/linters should care, though.  Arguably they should recommend specifying them as positionals.
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