[Python-3000] Stars

[Raymond Hettinger]

What we have now:
    def f(a, b, *args, **dict(c=1)):     # Yuck!

What we really need:
    def f(a, b, *args, **, c=1):           # Two stars spell dictionary.

What I heard was planned instead:
    def f(a, b, *args, *, c=1):             # One star spells iterable.

Two stars make a nice visual separator.
One star following *args just looks funny,


Raymond


P.S.  I would actually like to see this in Py2.6.  It doesn't conflict with 
anything else and solves an annoying problem.