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Expand Up @@ -824,9 +824,11 @@ Glossary
.. _positional-only_parameter:

* :dfn:`positional-only`: specifies an argument that can be supplied only
by position. Python has no syntax for defining positional-only
parameters. However, some built-in functions have positional-only
parameters (e.g. :func:`abs`).
by position. Positional-only parameters can be defined by including a
``/`` character in the parameter list of the function definition after
them, for example *posonly1* and *posonly2* in the following::

def func(posonly1, posonly2, /, positional_or_keyword): ...

.. _keyword-only_parameter:

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