Mark Dickinson wrote: > "dict(x, **y)" as an expression version of x.update(y) seems to be > fairly well known[1], so disallowing non-string keyword arguments > seems likely to break existing code, as well as (probably?) harming > performance. So I can't see CPython changing here. I'm not sure > whether other implementations should be required to follow suit, > though---maybe this should be regarded as an implementation-defined > detail?
I would agree with leaving it implementation defined - I don't think either PyPy or CPython should be forced to change their current behaviour in relation to this. A minor note in the language reference to that effect may be worthwhile just to make that stance official. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
