WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Thu Mar 4 07:50:14 EST 2010
Jonathan Fine wrote:
> We can call a function fn using
> val = fn(*args, **kwargs)
>
> I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions?
>
> For now I'll use argpair, but if anyone has a better idea, I'll use it.
In the legacy of C and Java (okay, that doesn't carry _much_
weight with me), I'd go with "varargs" to refer to the pair of
(args, kwargs)
-tkc
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