Oct. 10, 2018
12:14 a.m.
On Oct 9, 2018, at 16:21, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:26:50AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
My feeling is that limiting it to strings is fine, but checking those strings for resembling identifiers is pointless and wasteful.
Sure. The question is, do we have to support uses where people intentionally smuggle non-identifier strings as keys via **kwargs?
I would not be in favor of that. I think it doesn’t make sense to be able to smuggle those in via **kwargs when it’s not supported by Python’s grammar/syntax. -Barry