New submission from Fergal Daly ferg...@gmail.com:
According to the index, the only place that mentions ** in argument lists is
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#index-1099
and gives no indication of what an object must support to allow **.
When you attempt to ** an object
Fergal Daly ferg...@gmail.com added the comment:
Even if the glossary pointed to collections.html, there are far more methods
specified there than are needed to be **able.
The code just calls into the same code as dict.update(dict) (although
.update can also work on a sequence of twouples
