Yes fair point.

That seems more correct

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:49 PM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2020-08-06 14:16, Stestagg wrote:
> > I was following you right up till this bit:
> >
> >
> >     By the way, as previously noted
> >          d[1, 2]
> >          d[(1, 2)]
> >     are at present equivalent. However, in the new syntax
> >          d[1, 2, a=3]
> >          d[(1, 2), a=3]
> >     are not equivalent. (The first has three arguments, the second two,
> >     the first of which is a tuple.)
> >
> > In the "New syntax", wouldn't these examples map to:
> >
> > d[1, 2, a=3]  =>  d.__getitem__((1, 2), a=3)
> > and
> > d[(1, 2), a=3]  =>  d.__getitem__((1, 2), a=3)
> >
> Not quite. The second should be:
>
> d[(1, 2), a=3]  =>  d.__getitem__(((1, 2),), a=3)
>
> > I.e. My understanding was that the existing conversion of all positional
> > parameters in a subscript would be packed into a tuple (strictly for
> > consistency with legacy behaviour) while any keywords would be passed as
> > kwargs?
> >
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