Unpacking multiple dictionaries in a function?

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Sat Feb 12 15:51:45 EST 2011


Paul Rubin wrote:

> Martin De Kauwe <mdekauwe at gmail.com> writes:
>>     def wrapper(*old_dicts):
>>         dict={}
>>         for d in old_dicts:
>>             dict.update(d)
>>         return f(**dict)
> 
> Untested:
> 
>     from itertools import chain
>     def wrapper(*old_dicts):
>        return f(**dict(chain(d.iteritems() for d in old_dicts)))

I think you need chain.from_iterable() instead of chain().



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