On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I'm at least +0 on > allowing trailing commas in the situation the OP mentioned. >
FWIW, I am also about +0.5 on allowing trailing comma. Note that in a similar situation, the C standardization committee has erred on the side of consistency: """ A new feature of C99: a common extension in many implementations allows a trailing comma after the list of enumeration constants. The Committee decided to adopt this feature as an innocuous extension that mirrors the trailing commas allowed in initializers. """ http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf Similarly, I find allowing trailing comma in keyword only arguments lists to be an innocuous extension that mirrors the trailing commas allowed in the positional arguments lists. A possible benefit that I have not seen mentioned is that if developer decides to convert some of the trailing arguments in her function to keyword only, she does not have to worry about removing the trailing comma. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
