Forwarding keyword arguments from one function to another

[Ravi]

The following code didn't work:

class X(object):
        def f(self, **kwds):
                print kwds
                try:
                        print kwds['i'] * 2
                except KeyError:
                        print "unknown keyword argument"
                self.g("string", **kwds)

        def g(self, s, kwds):
                print s
                print kwds

if __name__ == "__main__":
        x = X()
        x.f(k = 2, j = 10)


However the following did:

class X(object):
        def f(self, **kwds):
                print kwds
                try:
                        print kwds['i'] * 2
                except KeyError:
                        print "unknown keyword argument"
                self.g("string", **kwds)

        def g(self, s, **kwds):
                print s
                print kwds

if __name__ == "__main__":
        x = X()
        x.f(k = 2, j = 10)



Please explain