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quote: Positional arguments require mentally lining up the 7th argument in your function call with the 7th argument in the function signature, and so on.

If your function has 7 arguments, consider refactoring

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If your refactoring is to make a 7-args function into a builder object (because what you're building actually needs those arguments), you're better off with keyword arguments.

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