[Tutor] Passing Dictionaries to Functions

[Ed Singleton]

Thanks again.

This does bring up an issue I occaiosionally have with the documentation.

Presumambly myfunc(**mydict) is a fairly trivial thing, but it is very
hard to find when you don't know what you're looking for.  Not sure
what the solution is, but the inability to search for things when you
don't know what they're called is a bit of a stumbling block
sometimes.

Maybe a page that very briefly summarises the 'unsearchable' with
links to fuller descriptions?

Ed

On 15/03/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> Ed Singleton wrote:
> > If I have a dictionary:
> >
> > mydict{'var1':"a", 'var2':"b"}
>
> Presumably you mean
>    mydict = {'var1':"a", 'var2':"b"}
> >
> > and I want to pass it to a function as:
> >
> > myfunc(var1="a", var2="b")
> >
> > How would I do it?
>
> myfunc(**mydict)
>
> Kent
>
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