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Type checker rejects call with both *args and a keyword arg #153
Description
The following code is not accepted by the type checker, even though it's arguably valid:
def f(a, x=1): pass
f(*[1], x=2) # Error: multiple values for keyword argument "x"
The type checker should probably not complain about multiple argument values if one of the values is from a *arg.
The limitation can be worked around by replacing keyword args with dict args (**args).
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subprocess: Work around type checker limitation
JukkaL commentedon Dec 18, 2014
Also, this should work but isn't accepted:
JukkaL commentedon Feb 21, 2015
Actually, maybe the first example should not be valid, since we can't check that there are no multiple argument values due to not knowing the length of the *args list.
We can revisit this later if it turns out to be problematic.
JukkaL commentedon Feb 21, 2015
I committed a partial fix now that fixes the parser issue.