SciPy is discussing migrating to keyword-only arguments

stefanv · November 3, 2023, 5:17pm

This is maybe something we can start doing as well across the library.

jni · November 4, 2023, 12:34am

I’ve been encouraging this in reviews for new functions for some time now, see e.g. https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/blob/1b52bdf5689a59517e37d997f6ba2e1421e2abb6/skimage/restoration/j_invariant.py#L200, which is 4 years old. For skimage2 I of course think it’s a no-brainer.

lagru · November 8, 2023, 10:59am

Same. I think until we get around to skimage2, incrementally switching to keyword arguments were possible is the way to go. I encourage updating the whole signature at once though if a function is touched. E.g. Deprecate output and positional args in `filters.gaussian` by lagru · Pull Request #7225 · scikit-image/scikit-image · GitHub.