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Sat Jun 28 00:56:46 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080795.html

Yes.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 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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