[Python-Dev] The interpreter accepts f(**{'5':'foo'}); is this intentional?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> How are we going to handle str subclasses and unicode?

"Are we going to"? You mean, the current code is not good enough? Why not?

> Should we allow
> all subclasses of basestring? Or just str and unicode? Or str only?

In 2.x, str only, in 3.x, unicode only.

Regards,
Martin