On Apr 4, 2014 7:50 AM, random832@fastmail.us wrote:

The problem is, there is no such thing as "writing out unordered key=value specifications" - anything that is "written out" has an order by its nature; the fact that this order is lost immediately is a poor abstraction. The desired use case is not to preserve the order of **kwds, it's to preserve the order of a sequence of key=value specifications.

Right. However, it is also important to preserve the order, if any, found in containers unpacked (via **) into a call. The possibility of "perfect kwargs preserving" wrappers (thanks Andrew) blurs the distinction.

-eric