[Tutor] Confounded again

[Kalle Svensson]

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[alan.gauld@bt.com]
> I posted a reply saying you couldn't call a function like:
> 
> f(i=5)
> 
> And this is true.

No.

> But apparently within a class method you can!  Does anyone know how
> this works? Here is a session showing what I did...
> 
> Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> def foo (i):
> ...   print i
> ...
> >>> foo(j = 7)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: foo() got an unexpected keyword argument 'j'

>>> def foo(i):
...     print i
...
>>> foo(i=7)
7

Peace,
  Kalle
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Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/
Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.
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