variable arguments question

[Stephan Diehl]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:48:40 -0400, vegetax wrote:

> if i have a dictionary: 
> d = {'a':2,'b':3 }
> l = (1,2)
> 
> how can i pass it to a generic function that takes variable keywords as
> arguments? same thing with variable arguments, i need to pass a list of
> arguments to the function
> 
> def asd(**kw): print kw
> def efg(*arg): print arg
> 
> asd(d) 
> doesnt work
> asd(kw = d) 
> doesnt work

but asd(**d)

> 
> efg(l)
> doesnt work

and efg(*l)

will work.
> 
> i need to pass those as a dictionary and a list,since i dont know ahead of
> time if which items would have d and l