Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:46:13 -0800, Eelco wrote:

> With all this being said, I must say that the notion of indtroducing
> type constraints into Python is quite a radical one*, 

Not that radical. Here's the creator of Python musing about adding 
optional type checks to Python:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=86641
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=87182


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> *even though the asteriks syntax is infact a limited form of exactly
> that

It absolutely is not. def f(*args, **kwargs) constructs a tuple and a 
dict, it does not type-check that the function is passed a tuple and a 
dict as arguments. These are completely different things.


-- 
Steven