[Python-ideas] Accepting keyword arguments for __getitem__

[Stefano Borini]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:24:53PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The obvious way to accept that would be to support keyword arguments,
> and then it begins looking very much like a call. Can you alter your
> notation very slightly to become LDA(Z=5) instead? 

We certainly can, but I was wondering if such extension would be useful in other contexts.
Also, with the function solution, you would lose the order of the entries. You can't distinguish
foo(z=3, r=4) from foo(r=4, z=3)

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