Python Cookbook dict problem

[Michael Hudson]

Dave Reed <dreed at capital.edu> writes:

> > Python expects you to do positional and keyword argument
> > unrolling at the end of the function argument list (i.e.
> > after all "normal" arguments). Change the last line to:  
> > 
> > tada = dodict(yellow=2, green=4, *data.items())
> 
> 
> Thanks. Did something change in Python versions or is it a typo in the
> book?

I'm pretty sure this has never changed, or at least not within the
last five years or so.

Cheers,
M.

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