Forcing the use of named parameters

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All parameters specified after the first asterisk in the function signature are keyword-only.

def f(*a, b):
    pass

f(1, 2, 3)
# TypeError: f() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'b'

In Python 3 it’s possible to put a single asterisk in the function signature to ensure that the remaining arguments may only be passed using keyword arguments.

def f(a, b, *, c):
    pass

f(1, 2, 3)
# TypeError: f() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given
f(1, 2, c=3)
# No error

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