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I'm guessing someone got inspired by https://adamj.eu/tech/2021/05/11/python-type-hints-args-and-...

IMHO mixing args and kwargs together like this - having a dict with mixed types for keys - looks kinda grotty.

I agree, it changes the semantics of dictionaries in a way that doesn't feel right. There are several things that are off-putting, but another example in vein with the mixed key types is the implicit ordered dict.

Every dict in Python is already ordered so it doesn't change much and Python doesn't blink at something like `int | str` so you can already do something like {0: "hello", "0": "world"} if you hated your readers. The only change would be changing how ** works when used as function arguments which is already bespoke.

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