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36477	Add an internal helper for deprecating positional arguments in favor of keyword-only arguments	Sarah Boyce	Mike Edmunds	"It is a fairly common pattern that ""passing positional arguments [argument names] to [something] is deprecated in favor of keyword-only arguments"".
See #34355, #35060 and #36163 for some examples.

As this is common, it would be useful to have a utility to help do this correctly (see #35554 for an issue we have had with this deprecation pathway previously).
It would also be nice to have this utility documented within the deprecation section in the contributing docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/internals/contributing/writing-code/submitting-patches/#deprecating-a-feature

https://github.com/django/django/pull/19145 implements a decorator to do this"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Utilities	dev	Normal	fixed		Mike Edmunds Adam Johnson	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0