[New-bugs-announce] [issue2646] Python does not accept unicode keywords

[John (J5) Palmieri]

New submission from John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>:

# given this function

def a(**kwargs):
    pass

# this works
a(**{'b':'c'})

# this throws a format error
a(**{u'b':'c'})

I am using a web framework (TurboGears w/ genshi templating) which often
pass around dictionaries as keyword arguments in order to have 1 to 1
representation of json data and URL parameters.  This is usually fine
except when using libraries such as simplejson which encodes all of the
keywords as unicode.

Attached is a patch which is most likely just the tip of the iceberg but
hopefully it turns out to be this easy.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: allow_unicode_keywords.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 65567
nosy: j5
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python does not accept unicode keywords
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10043/allow_unicode_keywords.patch

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