Functions taking **kwargs

[peterbell10]

uarray does not support funtions taking arbitrary keyword arguments because of this line:

uarray/uarray/_backend.py

Line 138 in 619e120

kw = {k: kw[k] for k in kw if k in opts}

This silently drops any unknown keyword arguments.

As far as I can tell, the main motivation for this is to support cases where argument_replacer returns extra keyword arguments as is the case with

uarray/unumpy/multimethods.py

Lines 28 to 33 in 619e120

	def _reduce_argreplacer(args, kwargs, arrays):
	def reduce(a, axis=None, dtype=None, out=None, keepdims=False):
	return (
	(arrays[0],),
	dict(axis=axis, dtype=dtype, out=arrays[1], keepdims=keepdims),
	)

which (as I found out in #170) is used with functions where dtype is not a valid kwarg.

[peterbell10]

Why was this closed?

[hameerabbasi]

I committed to master with a magic comment that fixed this issue. 😄

[peterbell10]

Ah, I see. Thanks!