Calling a function, arguments in a dict ??

[Tom Hanks]

"Thomas Weholt" <2002 at weholt.org> wrote in message news:<wYpJa.8525$Hb.148440 at news4.e.nsc.no>...
> If I got a dictionary with a bunch of key/values I want to use as named
> arguments for a function, how do I do that?
> 

The 'apply' builtin function is designed to handle this.

>>> argDict = {'num':10, 'dom':2}
>>> def ratio(num, dom):
... 	return num/dom
... 
>>> apply(ratio, [], argDict)
5

Tom Hanks.