From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-19T05:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Again, Rite explanation needed  (keyword args and new hash syntax)

il Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:19:42 +0900, Michael Neumann
<mneumann@ntecs.de> ha scritto::

>On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:32:16PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

>
>Ah, thanks. But think about this one in Python:
>
>  def f(a, b=10, *args, **keys):
>    print a, b, args, keys
>
>  f(1, b=2, c=4, d=8) # all right here
>
>  # want to use b as keyword argument
>  f(1, "a", "b", "c", b=2, c=4) # => ERROR
>
>The problem arises, as it's undecidable if b is a keyword argument or
>not, so that *args cannot be used in this case (or I am missing
>something here).

mh.. yes, this seem the case were  our kwd would be better. thanks for
the discussion :=)