[Python-Dev] Any grammar experts?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 26 20:29:20 CET 2015


On 01/26/2015 11:24 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
>> In the your example
>>
>>  from_env = {'a': 12}
>>  from_config = {'a': 13}
>>
>>  f(**from_env, **from_config)
>>
>> I would think 'a' should be 13, as from_config is processed /after/ from_env.
>>
>> So which is it?
> 
> In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

Lots of things are ambiguous until one learns the rules.  ;)

--
~Ethan~

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