>  But what if you wanted to take both positional AND keyword?

I was suggesting that that wouldn't be allowed.  So subscript either has a single argument, a tuple of arguments, or a dictionary of arguments.  Allowing both has some advantages but is less cleanly integratible. 

-- Caleb Donovick

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:16 AM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:47 PM Caleb Donovick <donovick@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> >  Why not?
>
> What if I want a getitem that only has keyword arguments? I have to take the empty tuple as a positional argument, instead of just ensuring that the key is a dict.
>

But what if you wanted to take both positional AND keyword?You can't
ensure that the key is both a dict and a tuple.

Cleaner to continue passing the tuple exactly as normal.

ChrisA
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