> This behavior seems pretty strange to me, indeed PyPy gives the
> TypeError for both attempts. I just wanted to confirm that it was in
> fact intentional.
Oleg already answered why f(**{1:3}) raises a TypeError. But your
question seems to be rather why dict(**{1:3}) doesn't.
For functions implemented in Python, non-string arguments are always
rejected, but C functions (like the dict constructor) don't have to
reject them. I don't see any benefit in allowing them, but it's probably
not worth breaking code by disallowing them either.
I couldn't find this documented. Perhaps we should just say "don't rely
on being able to pass non-string keywords" somewhere?
- Hagen
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