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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2023-08-16 20:35:35 (GMT)
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gh-56166: Deprecate passing confusing positional arguments in re functions (#107778)
Deprecate passing optional arguments maxsplit, count and flags in module-level functions re.split(), re.sub() and re.subn() as positional. They should only be passed by keyword.
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+Deprecate passing optional arguments *maxsplit*, *count* and *flags* in
+module-level functions :func:`re.split`, :func:`re.sub` and :func:`re.subn` as positional.
+They should only be passed by keyword.