(sorry for posting empty post by accident) Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > it stops working -- probably a side-effect of some optimization. > So if you change your hubDict's base class from dict to object you should > get the desired behaviour.
Yes, as already noted, this would require python >=1.6, and I am reluctant to upgrade at this point. What I ended up doing is to simply create a normal dictionary and copy all items from my hubDict merged "dictionary" into it just for the purpose of this one function call auxdict = dict((it for it in hubDictinstance.items())) f(**auxdict) Since this happens only few times during runtime it's not a big deal. Thanks to all for insights. K. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
