passing **kwargs to a function

[Bob Roberts]

Observe the folling code:
def a(*args, **kwargs):
    print args,kwargs
    b(kwargs)

def b(*args, **kwargs):
    print args,kwargs

a(a=1,b=2

And it's output:

() {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
({'a': 1, 'b': 2},) {}

I am trying to pass int b() the exact same keyword arguments that were
passed into it.  As you can see, it does't arrive in ths same way.  I
want the kwargs variable inside a() and b() to be exactly the same. 
How do I do that?