[C++-sig] Re: calling python method using keywords

[David Abrahams]

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> For now, you have to go to the Python 'C' API to do it.  I just
>> realized that Python doesn't have any unary operator*, so we could
>> make the    foobar(*args, **kwds);
>> syntax work in C++.  Not implemented yet, though ;-)
>
> what's wrong with a version of 'call' like
>
> object call(const tuple &t, const dict &d);
>
> ?

It doesn't take a callable object?

> That doesn't provide the syntactic sugar you seem to be looking for,
> but it comes close and seems fairly easy to implement.

The syntactic sugar is just about as easy to implement.

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