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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-04-27 09:39:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-04-27 09:39:59 (GMT) |
| commit | f8770fb5e2601ceab5ccf5a1313be9829207a5ed (patch) | |
| tree | 29d255bd14ed1cdcec8e2f762d8c90a99c275be9 /Doc/reference | |
| parent | 9f4f48114fbf2df3803a44a30cd14e11679403fe (diff) | |
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#2677: add note that not all functions may accept keyword args.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index 299ff56..c148533 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -663,6 +663,14 @@ slots for which no default value is specified, a :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised. Otherwise, the list of filled slots is used as the argument list for the call. +.. note:: + + An implementation may provide builtin functions whose positional parameters do + not have names, even if they are 'named' for the purpose of documentation, and + which therefore cannot be supplied by keyword. In CPython, this is the case for + functions implemented in C that use :cfunc:`PyArg_ParseTuple` to parse their + arguments. + If there are more positional arguments than there are formal parameter slots, a :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised, unless a formal parameter using the syntax ``*identifier`` is present; in this case, that formal parameter receives a tuple |