Passing parameters to functions

[Holger Türk]

Thomas Philips wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. A follow up question: Suppose I want to
> pass AT LEAST 2 positional arguments and AT LEAST 2 keyword arguments
> into a function, Then I think I would logically define the function as
> follows
> 
> def f(parg1, parg2, karg1="yes", karg2="no", *pargs, **kargs):
>     print parg1, parg2, pargs, karg1, karg2, kargs
> 
> and I expect that 
> f(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, karg1="maybe", karg2="maybe not", m="yes", n="no")
> 
> will return
> 1 2 (3, 4, 5) "maybe" "maybe not" {'m': "yes", 'n': "no"}
> 
> But instead I get an error: 
> f() got multiple values for keyword argument 'karg1'
> 
> [...]
> 
> How can I pass all these arguments into the function cleanly?

Maybe this way:

f (1, 2, karg1="maybe", karg2="maybe not", m="yes", n="no", *[3, 4, 5])

Greeting,

Holger