On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 9:16 PM Random832 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, at 20:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > This is likely to be a rare and unusual case, but we don't want to break
> > anyone who already has a dunder something like this:
> >
> >     def __getitem__(self, index, extra=None)
>
> People do similar things with regular arguments to regular functions now,
> trusting callers not to pass stuff in for no reason that will break the
> function has been adequate there.
>

Yes, but this is a little different in that the [] operator will never pass
in anything else, but if we make this change, then it might -- so this is a
breaking change in this case. And having keywords in the square brackets
pass keyword args to the dunder could,m in fact break this use case,
whereas passing a new keyword_index object would not.

But as I said in an earlier note -- having ezra keyword parameters on
__getitem__ is an abuse of the system anyway, so I think it's OK to break
that.

-CHB




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