Message 235018 - Python tracker

Message235018

Author gvanrossum
Recipients Jeff.Kaufman, Joshua.Landau, NeilGirdhar, SpaghettiToastBook, andybuckley, belopolsky, berker.peksag, eric.araujo, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, paul.moore, pconnell, r.david.murray, terry.reedy, twouters, zbysz
Date 2015-01-30.02:46:09
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Hi Neil,

I think disallowing them is the best approach. There doesn't seem to be a
good use case that would be thwarted. Hopefully the syntactic prohibition
isn't too hard to implement.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Neil Girdhar <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Neil Girdhar added the comment:
>
> All tests pass.
>
> @Guido: can we get some clarification on f(*… and f(**…?  One option is to
> make them illegal for now and then open them up in a future PEP when it's
> more clear what's wanted?
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> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37911/starunpack25.diff
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