Python function with **kwargs Question

[Christian Tismer]

Khoa Nguyen wrote:
> I would like to pass some keyword with special character to a 
> foo(**kwargs) function, but it doesn't work
> 
> def foo(**kwargs):
>   print kwargs
> 
> 
> This doesn't work:
> 
> foo(a-special-keyword=5)
> 
> How do I tell Python to treat '-' as a normal character but not part of 
> an expression?

By changing the parser :-)

Keywords are limited to obey Python syntax.

ciao - chris

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