arguments to functions

[Uwe Mayer]

In article <Xns923DC4803F1FDcliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>, cliechti at gmx.net 
says...
> Uwe Mayer <merkosh at hadiko.de> wrote in 
> news:MPG.178955a4fc8bfc1c989680 at news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:
> > I wanted to pass one named and a collection of unnamed (an arbitrary 
> > number) to a function:
> 
> def f(*args, **kwargs):
>     	print "positional args:", args
>     	print "keyword args:", kwargs
>     	if kwargs.has_attr("expected"):
>     	    	print "Expected was set to", kwargs["expected"]
> 
> does that help somehow? :-)
> 
> chris

yes, thanks.
I think I should rather think of "expected=None" as an initialisation 
value rather than a "named parameter".

Ciao
Uwe