Why do you need to iterate? You can do it with 2 if statements:

if 'strategy' in kwargs:
  copts.checkout_strategy = kwargs['strategy']

if 'directory' in kwargs:
  target_dir = ffi.new('char[]', to_str(kwargs['directory']))
  refs.append(target_dir)
  copts.target_directory = target_dir

It's a leftover from working with less abstract constructions; but it's a guess as to how many parameters will actually be passed versus how many we will be looking at. I'm not a fan of looking up the same key twice, but it can be reduced.

I remember now why I wanted to iterate over the inputs instead of checking for the known keys: if the programmer using this method makes a typo, we will ignore that option instead of complaining, which can cause subtle bugs, as there is no indication that we're ignoring an argument that was passed. I didn't end up doing it as we just have the two things, but when this gets extended, we should raise an exception if we get something we don't recognise as an option.

Just changed this static method so it is shorter and fails on unexpected arguments.