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Fri Jun 27 23:18:42 CEST 2008 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080785.html

So we wait until they port their code to 2.6 to break it?

regards
  Steve

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Sounds like a regression in 2.5 (and in 2.6, and in 3.0). Probably due
> to the switch to the  new AST-based compiler. Can you file a bug? I
> think we should leave 2.5 alone (too much risk of breaking code) but
> fix it in 2.6 and 3.0 if we can.
> 
> --Guido
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:07 PM, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the following code works on python 2.5:
>>
>>>>> def f(**kwargs):
>> ...     print kwargs
>> ...
>>>>> f(a=5,b=7,a=8)
>> {'a': 8, 'b': 7}
>> but fails on python2.4, saying that "a" is given twice.
>> is this a bug or a feature?
>>
>>
>> -tomer
>>
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