*args and **kwargs

[Erik Max Francis]

Andrew Lusk wrote:

> So you can send in keyval pairs and it will get a dictionary.  Useful
> for having multiple unordered optional arguments.

Concisely stated.  Note that you can also (Python 2.x) use the * and **
syntaxes for _calling_ functions.  As a shortcut to the apply builtin,
you can call a function using the *args and **keywords syntax:

	f(*args)
	g(**keywords)
	h(*args, **keywords)

etc.

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