Merge pull request jupyter#1 from jasongrout/kernel-startup

Modify existing kwargs dict instead of creating a new one
minrk · Apr 14, 2015 · 3ce634a · 3ce634a
2 parents 8201e17 + 8875c74
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diff --git a/jupyter_client/multikernelmanager.py b/jupyter_client/multikernelmanager.py
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ def start_kernel(self, kernel_name=None, **kwargs):
         # kernel_manager_factory is the constructor for the KernelManager
         # subclass we are using. It can be configured as any Configurable,
         # including things like its transport and ip.
-        kwargs = {}
         if self.kernel_spec_manager:
             kwargs['kernel_spec_manager'] = self.kernel_spec_manager
         km = self.kernel_manager_factory(connection_file=os.path.join(