GH61405 PR feedback

Author: loicdiridollou

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -401,7 +401,6 @@ Other API changes
 - Index set operations (like union or intersection) will now ignore the dtype of
   an empty ``RangeIndex`` or empty ``Index`` with object dtype when determining
   the dtype of the resulting Index (:issue:`60797`)
-- :meth:`DataFrame.query` does not accept ``**kwargs`` anymore and requires passing keywords for desired arguments (:issue:`61405`)
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .. _whatsnew_300.deprecations:

pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -4694,17 +4694,16 @@ def query(
         if not isinstance(expr, str):
             msg = f"expr must be a string to be evaluated, {type(expr)} given"
             raise ValueError(msg)
-        kwargs: Any = {
-            "level": level + 1,
-            "target": None,
-            "parser": parser,
-            "engine": engine,
-            "local_dict": local_dict,
-            "global_dict": global_dict,
-            "resolvers": resolvers or (),
-        }
 
-        res = self.eval(expr, **kwargs)
+        res = self.eval(
+            expr,
+            level=level + 1,
+            parser=parser,
+            engine=engine,
+            local_dict=local_dict,
+            global_dict=global_dict,
+            resolvers=resolvers or (),
+        )
 
         try:
             result = self.loc[res]