Question about apply

[jorma kala]

Hi,
I'm using apply to pass keyword arguments as a dictionary  to a funcion at
runtime (which keyword arguments to pass is only known at runtime)
apply is very handy for this, because it takes a dictionary of keyword
arguments directly

def f1(a=None,b=None,c=None):
    pass


kw={'a':1}

apply(f1,[],kw)

But I read in the doc that apply is deprecated.
What is the non-deprecated way of doing this?
Many thanks
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