what does **kw mean?

[Shane Geiger]

Does this help?

def foobar(first_name,last_name, *args, **kwargs):
    print first_name
    print last_name
    print "Tuple:",args
    print "Dict:",kwargs

x = "has"
y = "demonstrated"
foobar('Shane','Geiger', x, y, adjective='useful', thing='PYTHON trick
known as extended call syntax', adverb='wonderfully')




zslevi at gmail.com wrote:
> I've been reading the following example, and couldn't figure out, what
> **kw mean. (It's an empty dictionary, but what's the semantics):
>
>
> def wrap(method):
>     def wrapped(self, *args, **kw):
>         print "begin"
>         method(self, *args, **kw)
>         print "end"
>     return wrapped
>
>
> class Test(object):
>     def method(self, name):
>         print "method(%r)" % name
>
> t = Test()
> t.method("pure")
> Test.method = wrap(Test.method)
> t.method("wrapped")
>
>   


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