June 11, 1999
5:02 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jack Jansen wrote:
What exactly would the semantics be? While I hate the apply() loops you have to jump through nowadays to get this behaviour I don't funny understand how this would work in general (as opposed to in this case). For instance, would Foo(self, 12, *args, **kw) be allowed? And Foo(self, *args, x=12, **kw)
Following the rule used for argument processing now, if it's unambiguous, it should be allowed, and not otherwise. So, IMHO, the above two should be allowed, and I suspect Foo.__init__(self, *args, *args2) could be too, but Foo.__init__(self, **kw, **kw2) should not, as dictionary addition is not allowed. However, I could live with the more restricted version as well. --david