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Author	garden
Recipients	garden, loewis
Date	2008-04-24.10:35:11
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Message-id	<1209033312.75.0.825606815764.issue2677@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'd believe you when you say "positional parameters are unnamed", but: - the language reference contains terms such as "first formal parameter name". This means that positional parameters may have a name but may also have no name? - if you define a python function as "def f(a, b, c):" you can call it using keyword arguments instead of positional (e.g. f(1, c=3, b=2)). Could you please explain me what I'm still missing? (I repeat - I met python for the first time 2 weeks ago, so it may very well be the case that I'm completely wrong)

I'd believe you when you say "positional parameters are unnamed", but:

- the language reference contains terms such as "first formal parameter
name". This means that positional parameters *may* have a name but may
also have no name?
- if you define a python function as "def f(a, b, c):" you can call it
using keyword arguments instead of positional (e.g. f(1, c=3, b=2)).

Could you please explain me what I'm still missing? (I repeat - I met
python for the first time 2 weeks ago, so it may very well be the case
that I'm completely wrong)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-24 10:35:13	garden	set	spambayes_score: 0.159742 -> 0.15974236 recipients: + garden, loewis
2008-04-24 10:35:12	garden	set	spambayes_score: 0.159742 -> 0.159742 messageid: <1209033312.75.0.825606815764.issue2677@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-24 10:35:12	garden	link	issue2677 messages
2008-04-24 10:35:11	garden	create