Kaydet (Commit) f8770fb5 authored tarafından Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

#2677: add note that not all functions may accept keyword args.

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......@@ -663,6 +663,14 @@ slots for which no default value is specified, a :exc:`TypeError` exception is
raised. Otherwise, the list of filled slots is used as the argument list for
the call.
.. note::
An implementation may provide builtin functions whose positional parameters do
not have names, even if they are 'named' for the purpose of documentation, and
which therefore cannot be supplied by keyword. In CPython, this is the case for
functions implemented in C that use :cfunc:`PyArg_ParseTuple` to parse their
arguments.
If there are more positional arguments than there are formal parameter slots, a
:exc:`TypeError` exception is raised, unless a formal parameter using the syntax
``*identifier`` is present; in this case, that formal parameter receives a tuple
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