On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com> wrote: > My proposed solution is: Sorry!!! Now I think that the way to force an option to be default is to declare a default value in function definition: def efetch(db, cgi=None, retmode='xml', **keywds): instead of: def efetch(db, cgi=None, **keywds):