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Re:A few things to remember while coding in Python by CodeMage on Sunday May 20, 2012 @11:25AM (#3998994)
Cleverness like this makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside right up to the point where someone decides to actually pass that second argument to your function.
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Re:A few things to remember while coding in Python by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday May 20, 2012 @05:05PM (#4000103)
Well in Python 3 you can warn them:

    def fib(n, m:"donotusethisparameter"={}):
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