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i know i asked this long ago, but i never did get an answer. in the specification of many functions and methods it gives a ,*, in the list of arguments. i cannot find any description of what that means. i have been ignoring it and had success, anyway, but this worries me and i am still curious. i tried to search for my old thread but it seems the search means can't handle ,*,.

All arguments after * are mandatory keyword arguments. For more info check PEP3102 Keyword-only arguments

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Note, when I say "mandatory", I mean that IF you want to supply any of them it should be as keyword argument, not that it's mandatory to supply them.