**kwds behavior?

[Terry Reedy]

"Hans Nowak" <hans at zephyrfalcon.org> wrote in message
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> Now, on to the yucky solution:
>
>  >>> def g(**kwargs):
>          for key, value in kwargs.items():
>              exec "%s = %s" % (key, repr(value))
>          # test test...

This is cute but limited.  It only works when values ==
eval(repr(value)), which is to say, numbers, strings, and,
recursively, tuples, lists, and dicts and some user-class instances.
Others will raise syntax error.

Terry J. Reedy