Having problems accepting parameters to a function

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On May 1, 10:38 am, rh0dium <steven.kl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Experts!!
>
> I am trying to get the following little snippet to push my data to the
> function func().  What I would expect to happen is it to print out the
> contents of a and loglevel.  But it's not working.  Can someone please
> help me out.
>
> ---------<snip>--------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import random
>
> def func(*args, **kwargs):
>    print kwargs.get('a', "NOPE")
>    print kwargs.get('loglevel', "NO WAY")
>
> def main():
>    b = []
>    for x in range(5):
>       b.append({'a':random.random(), "loglevel":10})
>
>    for y in b:
>       apply(func,y)
>
>     # First attempt - didn't work
>     # for y in b:
>     #   func(y)
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    main()

1) apply() is deprecated

2) You need to unpack the dictionary using ** before sending it to
func(), whereupon it will be repacked into a dictionary.


import random

def func(*args, **kwargs):
    print kwargs.get('a', "NOPE")
    print kwargs.get('loglevel', "NO WAY")

def main():
    b = []
    for x in range(5):
        b.append({'a':random.random(), "loglevel":10})

    for y in b:
        func(**y)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()


You might consider redefining func() so that you don't have to do the
unpack--repack: