[Tutor] Re: Confounded again

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:09:28PM -0000, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
| I posted a reply saying you couldn't call a function like:
|=20
| f(i=3D5)
|=20
| And this is true. But apparently within a class method you can!
| Does anyone know how this works?

You can call functions using "keyword arguments" regardless of whether
or not they are class methods.

http://python.org/doc/current/tut/node6.html#SECTION006720000000000000000

If you want to define a function that can accept any arbitrary keyword
argument use the "**" notation.  For example :

def f( *args , **kwargs ) :
    print "the position arguments are:"
    print "-"*5
    print args
    print "-"*5
    print "the keyword arguments are:"
    print "-"*5
    print kwargs
    print "-"*5

-D

--=20
A)bort, R)etry, D)o it right this time
=20
http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/

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