Calling a function, arguments in a dict ??

[Jp Calderone]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:19:24AM +0200, Thomas Weholt wrote:
> If I got a dictionary with a bunch of key/values I want to use as named
> arguments for a function, how do I do that?
> 
> Say we got a function a, takes three parameters; x,y,z. In my dictionary I
> got {'z': 1, 'x': 2, 'y': 3}. How can I create some code that will call it
> like this :
> 
> a(z =1, x=2, y=3)

    d = {'z': 1, 'x': 2, 'z': 3}
    a(**d)

  Jp

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