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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 18:22:54 CEST 2010


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Because Python promises that the object the callee sees as 'kwargs' is "just a dict".

Huh, I thought kwargs was allowed to be implemented as a string-keys-only dict (similar to class and module namespaces) while still be a valid Python implementation. I guess I was wrong.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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