# Supporting (or not) invalid identifiers in \*\*kwargs

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/supporting-or-not-invalid-identifiers-in-kwargs/17147>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [July 7, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/supporting-or-not-invalid-identifiers-in-kwargs/17147 "2022-07-07T14:38:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![guido](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/guido/32/21_2.png) [@guido](https://discuss.python.org/u/guido)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/supporting-or-not-invalid-identifiers-in-kwargs/17147/10 "2022-07-09T15:57:06Z")

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Then please file a bug that it should be documented. I consider it a language feature in good standing but I don’t have ever page of documentation memorized so I don’t know whether there is explicit documentation of this (though it is probably implied somewhere by something that indicates a dict with string keys is required for `**`).

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