On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
-1.
How often do you really need this ?
In which of those cases wouldn't a static code analysis give you the call order of the parameters already ?
"Nice to have" is not good enough to warrant a slow down of all function calls involving keyword arguments, adding overhead for other Python implementations and possibly causing problems with 3rd party extensions relying on getting a PyDict for the keyword arguments object.
What he says.
In addition, I wonder what the semantics would be if the caller passed **d where d was an *unordered* dict...
What if the default behavior stays as it is today, but a magic decorator is added, (maybe @ordered_kwargs or some such), and only for these kind of functions the new behavior applies. Also, given such a decorator, when given **d where d is a regular dict, the implementation could possibly throw an error. (Or maybe it is up to the implementor of the specific function). Cheers, Imri -- Imri Goldberg -------------------------------------- http://plnnr.com/ - automatic trip planning http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/ -------------------------------------- -- insert signature here ----