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bpo-38237: Use divmod for positional arguments whatsnew example (GH-19171)

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@ -142,12 +142,11 @@ However, these are invalid calls::
One use case for this notation is that it allows pure Python functions
to fully emulate behaviors of existing C coded functions. For example,
the built-in :func:`pow` function does not accept keyword arguments::
the built-in :func:`divmod` function does not accept keyword arguments::
def pow(x, y, z=None, /):
"Emulate the built in pow() function"
r = x ** y
return r if z is None else r%z
def divmod(a, b, /):
"Emulate the built in divmod() function"
return (a // b, a % b)
Another use case is to preclude keyword arguments when the parameter
name is not helpful. For example, the builtin :func:`len` function has