On Oct 9, 2018, at 16:21, Steven D'Aprano <st...@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. -Barry
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