**kwargs?

Roland Heiber newstonne at web.de
Wed Jul 13 08:48:36 EDT 2005


Francois De Serres wrote:
> All your **kwargs are belong to us.
> 
> *args is documented in the Tutorial. I reckon **kwargs represents a 
> dictionary of arguments. But I don't quite get the semantics of **x. 
> Undefined length tuple of undefined length tuples? Are there other 
> practical use cases for ** (common enough please, I wish I was, but I'm 
> not a scientist).
> 
> TIA,
> Francois
Assume d = { 'arg1':'value1','arg2':'value2' }. Then

func(**d)

is the same as:

func(arg1='value1', arg2='value2')

HtH, Roland



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