diff options
| author | Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com> | 2020-01-08 13:00:14 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-01-08 05:00:14 -0800 |
| commit | 9a669d58e8cb586fba38c84d5b631cd8a95d0c0c (patch) | |
| tree | 67ab8d62833954426b0e771534732dc11c209f29 | |
| parent | 998c54948a29cf5bd8bfa49f973f1ce5855004a0 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-9a669d58e8cb586fba38c84d5b631cd8a95d0c0c.tar.gz | |
bpo-39233: Update positional-only section in the glossary (GH-17874)
https://bugs.python.org/issue39233
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/glossary.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 9ce0357f1c..6189cb0450 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -824,9 +824,11 @@ Glossary .. _positional-only_parameter: * :dfn:`positional-only`: specifies an argument that can be supplied only - by position. Python has no syntax for defining positional-only - parameters. However, some built-in functions have positional-only - parameters (e.g. :func:`abs`). + by position. Positional-only parameters can be defined by including a + ``/`` character in the parameter list of the function definition after + them, for example *posonly1* and *posonly2* in the following:: + + def func(posonly1, posonly2, /, positional_or_keyword): ... .. _keyword-only_parameter: |