Hi all,

On the Python-Ideas mailing list, there has been a long debate about 
resurrecting PEP 472, "Support for indexing with keyword arguments".

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0472/

One of the existing authors, Stefano Borini, is interested in updating 
the PEP with a new strategy that has some support (but not a consensus) 
on Python-Ideas, and removing from contention the previous strategies.

The new strategy is to pass keyword arguments directly to keyword 
parameters in the `__getitem__` etc methods, as other functions and 
methods do. The previous, rejected, strategies involved various hacks 
such as overloading the single index parameter with a dict or a 
namedtuple, etc.

Two complications:

- the PEP is rejected, not deferred.

- one of the previous co-authors, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde, seems to have 
  dropped out of contact.

Does Stefano need to get a sponsor and create a new PEP, or can he 
prepare a PR and ask for it to be re-opened?



-- 
Steve
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