Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments?

[Paul Rubin]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> Contrived example:
> def send_email(from, to, subj, body, whatever, other, headers, you, like):

That should be a dictionary with the header names as indexes.  In fact
there are already some email handling modules in the stdlib that
represent headers that way.