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Description
Bug Report
You can pass **kwargs
or *args
to a function, even if all of its arguments are already passed. I would expect this to raise an error, since it's only valid for empty kwargs
and args
.
To Reproduce
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def f(x: int) -> int:
return x + 1
def g(x: int, **kwargs) -> int:
return f(x, **kwargs)
def h(x: int, args: list[int]) -> int:
return f(x, *args)
g(1, bar=42)
h(2, [])
h(3, [1337])
Expected Behavior
In both g
and h
, the x
argument is specified, so I would expecting passing **kwargs
or *args
to produce an error, since they can never correctly pass additional arguments.
Actual Behavior
Success: no issues found in 1 source file
Your Environment
I tried several versions of mypy (including 1.16.0 and master
) with python3.12 in mypy playground.
I tried with both with and without --check-untyped-defs
** Related Issues
- This is a more general case of
*args
and**kwargs
are allowed even to methods with no arguments #13380 (that issue specifically mentions functions with no arguments) - Only allow splatting iterables if function takes at least one positional arg #12206 is another issue with splatting, but I don't think it's quite the same