On 05/23/2013 04:52 PM, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
On 5/23/2013 2:52 PM, Matthew Gilson wrote:
This is a question regarding the documentation around dictionary
unpacking. The documentation for the call syntax
(http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#grammar-token-call)
says:
"If the s
On 05/23/2013 03:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2013-05-23, Matthew Gilson wrote:
That's fine, but what is a keyword argument? According to the glossary
(http://docs.python.org/3.3/glossary.html):
/"keyword argument/: an argument preceded by an identifier (e.g. name=)
in a function call or pa
On 5/23/2013 2:52 PM, Matthew Gilson wrote:
This is a question regarding the documentation around dictionary
unpacking. The documentation for the call syntax
(http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#grammar-token-call)
says:
"If the syntax **expression appears in the function call,
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Matthew Gilson wrote:
> Using Cpython, we can do the following:
>
> def func(**kwargs):
> print kwargs
>
> d = {'foo bar baz':3}
>
> So that might lead us to believe that the keys of the mapping do not need to
> be valid identifiers. However,
On 05/23/2013 12:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2013-05-23, Matthew Gilson wrote:
That's fine, but what is a keyword argument? According to the glossary
(http://docs.python.org/3.3/glossary.html):
/"keyword argument/: an argument preceded by an identifier (e.g. name=)
in a function call or pa
On 2013-05-23, Matthew Gilson wrote:
> That's fine, but what is a keyword argument? According to the glossary
> (http://docs.python.org/3.3/glossary.html):
>
> /"keyword argument/: an argument preceded by an identifier (e.g. name=)
> in a function call or passed as a value in a dictionary prece
This is a question regarding the documentation around dictionary
unpacking. The documentation for the call syntax
(http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#grammar-token-call)
says:
"If the syntax **expression appears in the function call, expression
must evaluate to a mapping, th
