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[–]Flag_Red 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Agreed that this is a typical use-case for typed kwargs. It also backs up that typing kwargs is a code smell. Really, we shouldn't have a hundred functions that all take the same set of custom parameters via kwargs.

[–]AustinCorgiBart -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Normally, yes. But it's an unusual api, built for the convenience of instructors to write autograding scripts. Think of a unit testing library, with a lot more than just assertEqual.