Python 3 lets you have named keyword arguments too. Anything after the star-args is a named keyword argument, and you can have a simple star if you do not want

Python 3 lets you have named keyword arguments too. Anything after the star-args is a named keyword argument, and you can have a simple star if you do not want the argument list: def search(foo, bar, *, baz): Then, foo and bar would be named arguments, and baz would need to be passed by keyword.