Question about apply
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Sep 3 11:13:22 EDT 2009
jorma kala wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using apply to pass keyword arguments as a dictionary to a funcion
> at runtime (which keyword arguments to pass is only known at runtime)
> apply is very handy for this, because it takes a dictionary of keyword
> arguments directly
>
> def f1(a=None,b=None,c=None):
> pass
>
>
> kw={'a':1}
>
> apply(f1,[],kw)
>
> But I read in the doc that apply is deprecated.
> What is the non-deprecated way of doing this?
>
To pass a list as arguments use:
func(*arg_list)
To pass a dict as keyword arguments use:
func(**arg_dict)
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