On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, at 17:14, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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.
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. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
