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diff --git a/doc/data/messages/k/kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg/bad.py b/doc/data/messages/k/kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg/bad.py
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+def print_name(name="Sarah", /, **kwds):
+ print(name)
+
+
+print_name(name="Jacob") # [kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg]
diff --git a/doc/data/messages/k/kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg/good.py b/doc/data/messages/k/kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg/good.py
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+def print_name(name="Sarah", /, **kwds):
+ print(name)
+
+
+print_name("Jacob")
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+Add a new checker ``kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg`` to warn when a function is called with a keyword argument which shares a name with a positional-only parameter and the function contains a keyword variadic parameter dictionary. It may be surprising behaviour when the keyword argument is added to the keyword variadic parameter dictionary.
+
+Closes #8558