[Python-ideas] A sorted version of **kwargs

[Don Spaulding]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> ['b':1] would then be ambiguous (appears to be a slice of a list). More
>> obvious in the case of [1:2] ...
>>
>
> We use parenthesis for tuples and avoid the ambiguity by writing (1,).
> In the same way, we could require your examples to be written ['b':1,] and
> [1:2,]
>

Please, not this.  I like the idea of syntactic support for the odict, but
no need to spread the (foo,) syntax around.  It's too easy to misinterpret
when you do a quick scan of a body of code.
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