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authorLysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik@gmail.com>2019-03-10 11:30:11 (GMT)
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bpo-21314: Add a FAQ entry about positional only parameters (GH-10641)
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Raises :exc:`ValueError` if no signature can be provided, and
:exc:`TypeError` if that type of object is not supported.
+ A slash(/) in the signature of a function denotes that the parameters prior
+ to it are positional-only. For more info, see
+ :ref:`the FAQ entry on positional-only parameters <faq-positional-only-arguments>`.
+
.. versionadded:: 3.5
``follow_wrapped`` parameter. Pass ``False`` to get a signature of
``callable`` specifically (``callable.__wrapped__`` will not be used to