On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:55 +1000, James Mills wrote:
> What you have discovered is not a bug :)
>
> cheers
> James
>
Are you sure? It looks like his complaint isn't that it doesn't work,
but that the error message is misleading.
With the setup:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 22 2008, 12:08:38)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def foo( a, b, c ):
... pass
...
Compare the error messages from:
>>> foo( **{ 'a' : 1, 'c' : 3 } )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: foo() takes exactly 3 non-keyword arguments (1 given)
to the error message here:
>>> foo( **{ 'a' : 1, 'b' : 3 } )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: foo() takes exactly 3 non-keyword arguments (2 given)
Is it even possible to get an error message in terms of required keyword
arguments? I seem to remember seeing a note about keyword only arguments
recently...
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