[QGIS-Developer] Keyword args for python bindings?

[Nathan Woodrow]

I thought I turned that on a while ago?

IMO +1 on this because it makes things nicer to read.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Been thinking about this lately, with all the excellent work which is
> being done on sipify and improving the usability of the PyQGIS through
> docstrings and such... do we want to also turn on named argument
> support for PyQGIS methods?
>
> I gather it's just a matter of adding the annotation KeywordArgs=All
> to function definitions. We should be able to code this into sipify to
> handle this automatically.
>
> I'd see the big benefit here would be readability of python code - no
> more someMethod( True,False, 5, None) deciphering!
>
> The downside would be that the argument names would become part of
> stable API. We've still gots lots of unhelpful argument names (things
> like 's', 'c',.... ), so that's a potential downside if these get
> locked in (although maybe we can fix them before freeze).
>
> Thoughts?
> Nyall
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