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*args and **kwargs
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From: "Thomas Jollans" <tho...@jollans.NOSPAM.com>
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Subject: Re: *args and **kwargs
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:37:22 +0100
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"JonathanB" <doulo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, this is probably definitely a newbie question, but I have looked
> all over the Python library reference material and tutorials which I
> can find online and I cannot find a clear definition of what these are
> and more importantly how to use them. From what I can tell from their
> use in the examples I've seen, they are for passing a variable number
> of arguments to a function (which I need to do in a program I am
> working on). But how do you use them? Is there a fixed order in which
> the arguments within *arg or **kwarg should be passed or will be
> called within a function? I realize this probably involves a long-
> winded answer to a very simple and common programming problem, so if
> someone has a link to TFM, I'll gladly go RTFM. I just can't find it.
I hope this example code will help you understand:
>>> def a(*stuff):
print repr(stuff)
>>> def b(**stuff):
print repr(stuff)
>>> def c(*args, **kwargs):
print 'args', repr(args)
print 'kwargs', repr(kwargs)
>>> a(1,2,3)
(1, 2, 3)
>>> b(hello='world', lingo='python')
{'hello': 'world', 'lingo': 'python'}
>>> c(13,14,thenext=16,afterthat=17)
args (13, 14)
kwargs {'afterthat': 17, 'thenext': 16}
>>> args = [1,2,3,4]
>>> kwargs = {'no-way': 23, 'yet-anotherInvalid.name': 24}
>>> c(*args, **kwargs)
args (1, 2, 3, 4)
kwargs {'no-way': 23, 'yet-anotherInvalid.name': 24}
>>>
(sorry for the messed-up formatting)
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