which makes sense to me. params is passing the reference to the dict into the function. Whereas, **params is expanding the dict into the scope of the function before calling the first line of the body.

You can update the content of the former in-place, while the latter is just syntactic sugar for variadic function arguments.

but that’s just a choice whereas in C you have no choice but write flawless code.

Doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole if you are pro-slavery