On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 08:26:10PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Are you saying that for xarray it is important to distinguish between
> `d[day=3, detector=4]` and `d[detector=4, day=3]`? If we just passed the
> keyword args to `__getitem__` as an extra `**kwds` argument (which
> preserves order, since Python 3.6 at least), that should work, right? If
> not, can you clarify?
Just to clarify here, I assume you mean that if xarray cares about
order-preserving keywords, they should write their methods this way:
def __getitem__(self, index=None, **kwargs):
rather than mandating that keyword args are *always* bundled into a
single dict parameter.
--
Steven
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