>
> > Any time I am using a function from a library that accepts keyword
> > arguments. For example, an ORM model constructor that accepts fields as
> > keyword arguments (like Django).
>
> That's not the same issue at all, if I'm understanding you correctly.
> In any case, surely you need to do some validation on your dictionary of
> keyword arguments? Otherwise you are setting yourself up for a world of
> pain. If you do that, you should take the opportunity to decide what to
> do with invalid keys.
>
The specific pain point that motivated this was constructing many
interrelated models using a dict. So, for example, if there is a User model
with a related Address model, and the input is
user_kwargs = dict(
name='user',
age=20,
address=dict(
city='city',
state='ST',
),
)
then passing this information in to the User constructor directly will
fail, because User.address is a related model, not a simple field.
I agree that most of the time you should want unexpected keyword arguments
to raise an exception, but in specific circumstances it can be helpful to
extract only the pieces of a dict that are relevant.
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