How to do *args, **kwargs properly

[Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen]

Max M wrote:
> Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
> 
>> I must be missing something but what is the proper way to do a 
>> function using such arguments ?
> 
> 
>> - ability to take an unspecified number of "positional arguments"
> 
> 
> You should probably pass a sequence to the method instead. You can do it 
> the other way, but it's poor coding style in most cases.

So what you're saying is that instead of:

def fn(*values, **options):

I should use:

def fn(values, cmp=cmp):

in this specific case?

and then instead of:

fn(1, 2, 3, cmp=...)

this:

fn([1, 2, 3], cmp=...)

<snip>

I think I'll re-write to use a list instead.

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