made changes for issue 41485, set_codes function

Author: Pydare

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst

@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ Deprecations
 - Deprecated setting :attr:`Categorical._codes`, create a new :class:`Categorical` with the desired codes instead (:issue:`40606`)
 - Deprecated behavior of :meth:`DatetimeIndex.union` with mixed timezones; in a future version both will be cast to UTC instead of object dtype (:issue:`39328`)
 - Deprecated using ``usecols`` with out of bounds indices for ``read_csv`` with ``engine="c"`` (:issue:`25623`)
+- Deprecated passing arguments as positional (except for ``"codes"``) in :meth:`MultiIndex.codes` (:issue:`41485`)
 - Deprecated special treatment of lists with first element a Categorical in the :class:`DataFrame` constructor; pass as ``pd.DataFrame({col: categorical, ...})`` instead (:issue:`38845`)
 - Deprecated passing arguments as positional (except for ``"method"``) in :meth:`DataFrame.interpolate` and :meth:`Series.interpolate` (:issue:`41485`)
 - Deprecated passing arguments (apart from ``value``) as positional in :meth:`DataFrame.fillna` and :meth:`Series.fillna` (:issue:`41485`)