From d392ea5d8a11049a275207cf18e488bf19a57c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Byrne <31762852+mbyrnepr2@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 10:34:47 +0200 Subject: Add new checker `kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg` and fix a false positive (#8644) * Fix a false positive for ``redundant-keyword-arg`` when a function, with a keyword-only-parameter and ``**kwargs``, is called with a positional argument and a keyword argument where the keyword argument has the same name as the positional-only-parameter. * Add new checker ``kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg`` which emits a warning message for the above scenario. Closes #8558 Co-authored-by: Pierre Sassoulas --- doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature (limited to 'doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature') diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b5a8342f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8558.feature @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Add a new checker ``kwarg-superseded-by-positional-arg`` to warn when a function is called with a keyword argument which shares a name with a positional-only parameter and the function contains a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 -- cgit v1.2.1