# PEP 570: Python Positional-Only Parameters

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-570-python-positional-only-parameters/1078>\
**Category:** PEPs\
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-570-python-positional-only-parameters/1078 "2019-03-28T00:04:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-570-python-positional-only-parameters/1078/36 "2019-03-29T13:00:09Z")

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> [@steve.dower](#):
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> Knowing that every argument can be specified by name is a feature, and I’m not convinced abandoning that is worth it.

It’s not a feature. Readability Counts, and writing `len(obj=configurations)` is not something we want to encourage.

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