On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:45 PM Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I also remembered another possible use-case: kwargs in CPython. In C code,
> kwargs are PyDictObjects. I suppose they are usually not modified; if so,
> fdict could be used, since it seems to be faster at creation.
>
That's an interesting idea. It has always vaguely bothered me that `*args`
gives a tuple while `**kwds` gives a dict. Unfortunately it's impossible to
change without breaking tons of existing code, since things like
`kwds.pop("something")` have become a pretty standard idiom to use it.
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