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Re:A practical usage of ChainMap in Python by dfee on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:01PM (#18069377)
I disagree. There’s a strange precedent for builtins overloading like ‘type’. The same could be done for ‘dict’. Do you want me to share a satisficing call signature?
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Re:A practical usage of ChainMap in Python by joshuamorton on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:00PM (#18070887)
Type doesn't take in kwargs?

But yes, I'm interested in the call signature you propose such that it's possible to tell whether

    dict(ordered=True)
Means `OrderedDict([])` or `{'ordered': True}`.
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