pygmt.which: Fix the bug when passing multiple files

[seisman]

Description of proposed changes

Issue first reported in #2361 (comment). See that issue for context.

To reproduce the issue:

>>>frompygmtimportwhich>>># doesn't work>>>which(["@hotspots.txt", "@earth_relief_01d_g"])
gmtwhich [ERROR]: File ['@hotspots.txt', notfound!
gmtwhich [ERROR]: File'@earth_relief_01d_g'] notfound!
>>># works>>>which(fname=["@hotspots.txt", "@earth_relief_01d_g"])

Address #2361.

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[seisman]

Now we can pass a list of files without having to use fname=

[weiji14]

Reading up on https://peps.python.org/pep-0570/#positional-or-keyword-arguments and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9450656/positional-argument-vs-keyword-argument (see also Max's previous comment at #731 (comment)), should we explicitly mark fname as positional_or_keyword like this (unsure if syntax is ok)?

Suggested change

	defwhich(fname, **kwargs):
	defwhich(/, fname, *, **kwargs):

Or just stick with the current one (which works also I think).

[seisman]

Better to open a separate issue so that we can have more discussions about the behavior and also have consistent function definitions in the whole project.

[weiji14]

On second thought, maybe we should enforce using keyword-only arguments like so:

Suggested change

	defwhich(fname, **kwargs):
	defwhich(*, fname, **kwargs):

Then the gmtwhich [ERROR] you mentioned at #2361 (comment) would turn into a slightly more useful error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[4], line 1
----> 1 cached_files = which([f"@{fname}" for fname in filenames], download="c")
File ~/pygmt/pygmt/helpers/decorators.py:598, in use_alias.<locals>.alias_decorator.<locals>.new_module(*args, **kwargs)
591 msg = (
592 "Parameters 'Y' and 'yshift' are deprecated since v0.8.0. "
593 "and will be removed in v0.12.0. "
594 "Use Figure.shift_origin(yshift=...) instead."
595 )
596 warnings.warn(msg, category=SyntaxWarning, stacklevel=2)
--> 598 return module_func(*args, **kwargs)
TypeError: which() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given

Well, actually not that useful (it doesn't say that the fname keyword should be used. But something to consider - if we want to allow 1) positional_or_keyword (current), or 2) only keyword.

[seisman]

Instead, I prefer to def which(fname, *, **kwargs). It allows which("file.txt") which is much simpler than which(fname="file.txt").

[weiji14]

Ok, let's go with that. I'll approve this PR, but you can apply the change afterwards.

[seisman]

def which(fname, *, **kwargs)

gives a syntax error:

'named arguments must follow bare *

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14301967/what-does-a-bare-asterisk-do-in-a-parameter-list-what-are-keyword-only-parame.

I'll leave the function definition as it is now.

[weiji14]

Ok, let's go with that. I'll approve this PR, but you can apply the change afterwards.