Ethan Furman <[email protected]> writes:
> My contention is that an identity function is a do-nothing function
> that simply returns what it was given:
>
> --> identity(1)
> 1
>
> --> identity('spam')
> 'spam'
These seem good to me. One argument given, the same result returned.
> --> identity('spam', 'eggs', 7)
> ('spam', 'eggs', 7)
That's a confusingly inconsistent result, as pointed out by other
responses in this thread.
I would expect an identity function to accept exactly one positional
argument. Given more than one positional argument, it should raise a
TypeError.
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