Khoa Nguyen wrote: > I would like to pass some keyword with special character to a > foo(**kwargs) function, but it doesn't work > > def foo(**kwargs): > print kwargs > > > This doesn't work: > > foo(a-special-keyword=5) > > How do I tell Python to treat '-' as a normal character but not part of > an expression?
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