On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:32 PM Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

On 25.05.2016 16:06, Ian Foote wrote:
def validate(self, data):
{'name': name, 'address': address, **rest} = data
@Michael
Does using ** instead of * seem more appropriate?

It does. ``*args`` creates a tuple. ``**kwargs`` creates a dict.