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

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Fri Apr 16 09:31:31 CEST 2010


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:57:06AM -0400, Alex Gaynor wrote:

>>> def f(**kwargs): ... print(kwargs) ... >>> kwargs = {1: 3} >>> >>> dict({}, **kwargs) {1: 3} >>> f(**kwargs) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: f() keywords must be strings

Argument names must be strings. In your example 1 must be at least '1'.

Oleg.

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