On 01/26/2015 11:39 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> On 01/26/2015 11:24 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
>>>> In the your example
>>>>
>>>> from_env = {'a': 12}
>>>> from_config = {'a': 13}
>>>>
>>>> f(**from_env, **from_config)
>>>>
>>>> I would think 'a' should be 13, as from_config is processed /after/
>>>> from_env.
>>>>
>>>> So which is it?
>>>
>>> In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
>>
>> Lots of things are ambiguous until one learns the rules. ;)
>
> I don't see why `f(**{'a': 12}, **{'a': 13})` should not be equivalent
> to `f(a=12, **{'a':13})` – iow, raise TypeError.It destroy's the chaining value and pretty much makes the improvement not an improvement. If there's a possibility that the same key could be in more than one of the dictionaries then you still have to do the dict.update(another_dict) dance. -- ~Ethan~
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