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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:13:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 11:31:48 +0000, bart wrote:

> Does it have optional arguments with default values? IMO keyword
> arguments are much less useful without that feature/

The two do seem to go together. ;)

Python has long had the feature of, not only *allowing* arguments to be 
specified by keyword, but *requiring* them to be passed that way, for all 
arguments after a specified point in the argument list.

Newer versions even go a step further, some might say in the backwards 
direction, by *requiring* arguments prior to a specified point to be 
passed by position only, not keyword.

Of course, all this ties in to the great flexibility you have with dealing 
in argument lists in Python, allowing not just for the caller to pass 
arbitrary numbers of arguments, but also use arbitrary names for them.