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authorPablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>2019-05-28 23:45:32 (GMT)
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bpo-36540: Documentation for PEP570 - Python positional only arguments (#13202)
* bpo-36540: Documentation for PEP570 - Python positional only arguments * fixup! bpo-36540: Documentation for PEP570 - Python positional only arguments * Update reference for compound statements * Apply suggestions from Carol Co-Authored-By: Carol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com> * Update Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst Co-Authored-By: Carol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com> * Add extra bullet point and minor edits
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@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ attributes:
| | | variables (referenced via |
| | | a function's closure) |
+-----------+-------------------+---------------------------+
+| | co_posonlyargcount| number of positional only |
+| | | arguments |
++-----------+-------------------+---------------------------+
| | co_kwonlyargcount | number of keyword only |
| | | arguments (not including |
| | | \*\* arg) |
@@ -724,13 +727,9 @@ function.
| Name | Meaning |
+========================+==============================================+
| *POSITIONAL_ONLY* | Value must be supplied as a positional |
- | | argument. |
- | | |
- | | Python has no explicit syntax for defining |
- | | positional-only parameters, but many built-in|
- | | and extension module functions (especially |
- | | those that accept only one or two parameters)|
- | | accept them. |
+ | | argument. Positional only parameters are |
+ | | those which appear before a ``/`` entry (if |
+ | | present) in a Python function definition. |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| *POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD*| Value may be supplied as either a keyword or |
| | positional argument (this is the standard |