Inconsistent ordering of arguments if one is a keyword argument

[chess-equality]

I have the function:

def function9(param1, **param2):
    print "keywordArgs"

When parsing the arguments, the order of the arguments in the children array are inconsistent, such that sometimes I get args[0] = param1, args[1] = param2, other times I get args[0] = param2, args[1] = param1.