[Python-ideas] Proto-PEP: Preserving the order of **kwargs in a function.

[Barry Warsaw]

Wouldn't another, much less invasive, much more explicit approach be to not
squash subclasses of dict when passed into **args?

IOW, the way to preserve order would be:

>>> def foo(**kws):
...   print(kws)
... 
>>> from collections import OrderedDict as od
>>> foo(**od(a=1, b=2, c=3))
OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('c', 3), ('b', 2)])
>>> # instead of: {'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}

?

Okay, if you call it with keyword syntax, e.g.

>>> foo(a=3, b=2, c=1)
{'c': 1, 'a': 3, 'b': 2}

but oh well.
-Barry
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