Yes, they not complicated, and I imagine it's a non issue for most. The interface is awkward however in that in other languages you would overload the function

Yes, they not complicated, and I imagine it's a non issue for most. The interface is awkward however in that in other languages you would overload the function or pass a data structure, or reference of one, to manage additional optional parameters when you didn't want the extra arguments explicitly listed. Python is a popular language and there are a ton of contributors who have developed third party packages. Unfortunately, these are not always well written or maintained and it can be easy to stumble across a bad one when looking for useful things. It's never fun to debug code in an unfamiliar language.