Bug report

Bug description:

Setting two * to a function gets the error message saying * argument as shown below:

def func(*, *, param1, param2):
    pass

SyntaxError: * argument may appear only once

Setting * after all the parameters gets the error message saying named arguments as shown below:

def func(param1, param2, *):
    pass

SyntaxError: named arguments must follow bare *

So, argument should be replaced with parameter as shown below:

SyntaxError: duplicate parameter 'param' in function definition

SyntaxError: named parameters must follow bare *

*You can also see this issue.

CPython versions tested on:

3.12

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-133436: Correct error messages that incorrectly use "arguments" #133463