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| author | Ammar Askar <ammar@ammaraskar.com> | 2020-03-27 16:37:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-27 16:37:43 (GMT) |
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bpo-38237: Use divmod for positional arguments whatsnew example (GH-19171)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 09047c4..18fb2e0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -142,12 +142,11 @@ However, these are invalid calls:: One use case for this notation is that it allows pure Python functions to fully emulate behaviors of existing C coded functions. For example, -the built-in :func:`pow` function does not accept keyword arguments:: +the built-in :func:`divmod` function does not accept keyword arguments:: - def pow(x, y, z=None, /): - "Emulate the built in pow() function" - r = x ** y - return r if z is None else r%z + def divmod(a, b, /): + "Emulate the built in divmod() function" + return (a // b, a % b) Another use case is to preclude keyword arguments when the parameter name is not helpful. For example, the builtin :func:`len` function has |