Asterisk in method definition

Asked May 23 '19 at 08:04

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I was looking through the urllib.urlopen method and I saw this in its definition. What is meant by this?

def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
            *, cafile=None, capath=None, cadefault=False, context=None):

What does it mean?

edited May 23 '19 at 08:04

jonrsharpe

asked May 23 '19 at 08:04

Mark Estrada

It makes the arguments after the `*` only able to be used as keyword arguments, this is because the * will absorb excess positional arguments. Google search for keyword only arguments – Keatinge May 23 '19 at 08:04
Ok got it. Its a duplicate question. Closing this now. Thanks – Mark Estrada May 23 '19 at 08:06

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