[Tutor] Class Tips

[David]

ALAN GAULD wrote:
> 
>> but I get an error here;
>>
>> def main():
>>     frate = FertRate(get_inputs())
> 
> 
>>   File "./fert_class.py", line 15, in main
>>     frate = FertRate(get_inputs())
>> TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 5 arguments (2 given)
> 
> 
> Sorry my mistake. Because get_inputs() returns a tuple 
> you have to tell the function to unpack it by placing an 
> asterisk in front of the function call:
> 
> frate = FerrtRate( *get_inputs() )
> 
> That should work now.
> 
> Alan G.
> 
> 
Super, I had seen that in other programs and now I know why.
I have used;
def c(*args, **kwargs):
My understanding is 'args' is a tuple with all the positional arguments, 
kwargs is a dictionary with all the named arguments.

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