ugh. very loosely related, this reminds me of calling R functions from python that take keyword arguments with dots in their names. >>> f(hello.world=123)

ugh. very loosely related, this reminds me of calling R functions from python that take keyword arguments with dots in their names. >>> f(hello.world=123) File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression so instead: >>> f(**{'hello.world':123})