WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Mar 5 01:00:50 EST 2010


In article <mailman.284.1267707023.23598.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Chase  <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>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)

Ditto
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