On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 06:56 -0700, Taylor wrote: [...] > My question is: is there any way to do this without wasting the time > of a loop that just writes the values and keys into a new dict that I > actually can pass as a keyword argument? This doesn't seem like a > crazy request. I have my data in nice keyword/value pairs, why should > I have to loop through them just to pass them to a function?
The "why" is because Python has a limitation that requires keyword arguments to have str type and not merely basestring type. There's conflicting requirements here: using unicode strings throughout and Python's requirement on keyword arguments. The latter lost out, in the sense that you have to make the conversion yourself, since using strings generally is a much broader use-case and you will almost always want to use them as proper strings (not having to worry about encoding and decoding -- hence we make them unicode objects) than just passing them as keyword arguments to functions. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
