Automatic binding of **kwargs to variables
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 30 01:22:14 EDT 2005
lbolognini at gmail.com <lbolognini at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> def foo(**kwargs):
> expected_form1_kwargs = ["arg1", "arg2"]
>
> for name in expected_form1_kwargs:
> if name not in kwargs:
> kwargs[name]=None
>
> for name in kwargs:
> if name in kwargs and name not in expected_form1_kwargs:
> raise ValueError, "Unrecognized keyword: " + name
>
> print kwargs
I find this style of coding repulsive when compared to:
def foo(arg1=None, arg2=None):
print dict(arg1=arg1, arg2=arg2)
I don't understand what added value all of those extra, contorted lines
are supposed to bring to the party.
Alex
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