# Syntactic sugar to encourage use of named arguments

**URL:** https://discuss.python.org/t/syntactic-sugar-to-encourage-use-of-named-arguments/36217
**Category:** Ideas
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/syntactic-sugar-to-encourage-use-of-named-arguments/36217 "2023-10-14T17:38:31Z")
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### Author: ![jamestwebber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/jamestwebber/32/12799_2.png) [@jamestwebber](https://discuss.python.org/u/jamestwebber)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/syntactic-sugar-to-encourage-use-of-named-arguments/36217/153 "2023-12-01T17:55:14Z")

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This came up before and got split off to a separate thread, because it’s really a separate idea: [Assign corresponding parameter value when omitting RHS in \_\_init\_\_](https://discuss.python.org/t/assign-corresponding-parameter-value-when-omitting-rhs-in-init/37676)

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