On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:01 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> I'm also fine with saying that keys in **kwargs that are not proper
> identifiers is an implementation detail.
>
It's not just **kwargs -- you can also use arbitrary names with setattr() /
getattr() :
In [6]: setattr(foo, "4 not an identifier", "this works")
In [7]: getattr(foo, "4 not an identifier")
Out[7]: 'this works'
Which brings up a question I've had for years -- is the fact that cPython
uses a regular old dict for namespaces (and **kwargs) part of the language
spec, or an implementation detail?
I would say that for the get/setattr() example, it is kinda handy when you
want to use a class instance to model some external data structure that may
have different identifier rules. Though I tend to think that's mingling
data and code too much.
-CHB
>
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 02:20, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 04.10.18 11:56, Steven D'Aprano пише:
>> > While keyword arguments have to be identifiers, using **kwargs allows
>> > arbitrary strings which aren't identifiers:
>> >
>> > py> def spam(**kwargs):
>> > .... print(kwargs)
>> > ....
>> > py> spam(**{"something arbitrary": 1, '\n': 2})
>> > {'something arbitrary': 1, '\n': 2}
>> >
>> >
>> > There is some discussion on Python-Ideas on whether or not that
>> > behaviour ought to be considered a language feature, an accident of
>> > implementation, or a bug.
>> >
>> > Can we get some guidence on this please?
>>
>> This is an implementation detail. Currently CPython doesn't ensure that
>> keyword argument names are identifiers for performance reasons. But this
>> can be changed in future versions or in other implementations.
>>
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