[Chicago] order of keyword arguments

Ted Pollari tcp at mac.com
Thu Feb 5 15:36:48 CET 2009


On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:

> Igor Sylvester wrote:
>> Is this worthy of a PEP?
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Igor Sylvester  
>>> <igorsyl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to obtain the order of keyword arguments in this  
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> def foo(**kargs):
>>>>            print kargs.items()
>>>>
>>>> The call foo(A=0, B=1) could print (('A', 0), ('B', 1)) or (('B',  
>>>> 1),
>>>> ('A', 0)).
>
> What is the use case for this?

+1

The first step in making a viable PEP would be showing a clear use- 
case where the is clearly needed.  I'm not saying there isn't one, but  
I'd like to see why you think it's PEP-worthy.

-t


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