I can't find documentation about whether there are constraints imposed
on the keys in the map passed to a function via **, as in f(**d).
According to
http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#id9
, d must be a mapping.
test_extcall.py implies that the keys of this map must be strings in the
following test:
>>> f(**{1:2})
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: f() keywords must be strings
But must the keys be valid python identifiers?
In particular, the following is allows by the Python 2.5.2 and the
Jython 2.2.1 interpreters:
>>> f(**{'1':2})
{'1': 2}
Is this behavior required somewhere by the Python language spec, or is
it an error that just doesn't happen to be checked, or is it
intentionally undefined whether this is allowed?
Michael
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