Calling a function, arguments in a dict ??

[Gerrit Holl]

Tom Hanks wrote:
> "Thomas Weholt" <2002 at weholt.org> wrote in message news:<wYpJa.8525$Hb.148440 at news4.e.nsc.no>...
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> The 'apply' builtin function is designed to handle this.
> 
> >>> argDict = {'num':10, 'dom':2}
> >>> def ratio(num, dom):
> ... 	return num/dom
> ... 
> >>> apply(ratio, [], argDict)
> 5

Note that apply is no longer necessary now that you can use
func(*args, **kwargs).

yours,
Gerrit.

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