Error out if kwargs dict contains a kwargs entry.kwargskwargs

Yo dawg! We heard U don't like kwargs in kwargs, so we made it
impossible to put kwargs in your kwargs so now you can't kwargs with
your kwargs.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
index 159459436..707b8f702 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase.py
@@ -999,7 +999,9 @@ The result of this is undefined and will become a hard error in a future Meson r
             return kwargs
         to_expand = kwargs.pop('kwargs')
         if not isinstance(to_expand, dict):
-            raise InterpreterException('Value of "kwarg" must be dictionary.')
+            raise InterpreterException('Value of "kwargs" must be dictionary.')
+        if 'kwargs' in to_expand:
+            raise InterpreterException('Kwargs argument must not contain a "kwargs" entry. Points for thinking meta, though. :P')
         for k, v in to_expand.items():
             if k in kwargs:
                 raise InterpreterException('Entry "{}" defined both as a keyword argument and in a "kwarg" entry.'.format(k))