[Python-Dev] Arbitrary non-identifier string keys when using **kwargs (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Tue Oct 9 22:12:16 EDT 2018

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, at 17:14, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Oct 9, 2018, at 16:21, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:26:50AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> My feeling is that limiting it to strings is fine, but checking those >> strings for resembling identifiers is pointless and wasteful. > > Sure. The question is, do we have to support uses where people > intentionally smuggle non-identifier strings as keys via **kwargs?

I would not be in favor of that. I think it doesn’t make sense to be able to smuggle those in via **kwargs when it’s not supported by Python’s grammar/syntax.

Can anyone think of a situation where it would be advantageous for an implementation to reject non-identifier string kwargs? I can't.

I agree with Guido—banning it would be too much trouble for no benefit.

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