[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Apr 17 14:41:03 CEST 2010

Steve Holden <steve holdenweb.com> writes:

I'm sure we wouldn't want to go so far as to inhibit this. (Py 3.1)

>>> def f(**kwargs): ... kwargs[1] = "dummy" ... print(kwargs) ... >>> f(this="Guido", that="Raymond", theother="Steve") {'this': 'Guido', 1: 'dummy', 'theother': 'Steve', 'that': 'Raymond'}

I think that according to the proposal, the above snippet would be OK, but

def f(**kwargs): kwargs[1] = 'dummy' g(**kwargs)

would fail at the call of g.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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