[Python-ideas] Re: Package kwkey and PEP 472 -- Support for indexing with keyword arguments

On 4/08/20 1:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Why would we want to even consider a new approach to handling keyword arguments which applies only to three dunder methods, `__getitem__`, `__setitem__` and `__delitem__`, instead of handling keyword arguments in the same way that every other method handles them?

These methods are already kind of screwy in that they don't handle *positional* arguments in the usual way -- packing them into a tuple instead of passing them as individual arguments. I think this is messing up everyone's intuition on how indexing should be extended to incorporate keyword args, or even whether this should be done at all. -- Greg