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You shouldn't be using dicts for data that you know the name of anyway - use dataclasses or named tuples. Dicts are best for things with keys that are not known at compile time.

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Since when can you use data classes for kwargs? There are plenty of times when you should use a dict even if you know the keys.

You shouldn't be using kwargs! That is also well known to be bad practice (or it should be anyway).

https://medium.com/codex/stop-using-kwargs-as-method-argumen...

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/on-kwargs.html

Give me another one.

I’d agree with this, unless the kwargs is typed with the new-ish PEP-692: https://peps.python.org/pep-0692/

lol i think you didn't read/understand this - the article is about **kwargs (which is sometimes sloppy) while the person you're responding to is talking about "exploding" a dict when calling a function (this does not require **kwargs at all).

So when they said "kwargs" they didn't actually mean **kwargs they meant something else which doesn't even require kwargs? How did you magically infer that?

Sure, but destructuring makes sense for both. Just assign the variables without corresponding keys a value of None.

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