On: *args and **kwargs in python explained

[andrewcooke]

you can't do it. see the comments in the constructor for OrderedDict (if i am remembering correctly - somewhere there's something in the python source that basically says "rats, need an ordered kwargs but that's not possible").

here you go - http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/collections.py?v... - line 32.

probably you need to pass in an OrderedDict instance.

[mtrn → andrewcooke]

Yes, I thought so. Otherwise there would be much more ordered kwargs decorators or hacks floating around. Thanks for the link to the source.