Question about apply

[jorma kala]

Many thanks!!



On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com>wrote:

>  jorma kala wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> Use the double-star syntax:
>
> f1(**kw)
>
>
> Gary Herron
>
>
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