[Tutor] Tkinter Q's

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Joseph Quigley wrote:
> Hi, 
> 	what's the **kw stand for, used for? What does it mean?
> 
> 

[...]

>>
>>class Main(Frame):
>>   def __init__(self, master=None, **kw):
>>       Frame.__init__(self, master, **kw)
>>

It is the python way to pass along all keyword arguments (xxx=yyy).

So in the above if Main was instantiated the following way:
   myframe = Main(name="some name", height="100")

Then __init__ gets called with parameters:
   __init__(self,None, name="some name", height="100")

The **kw here denotes the name and height keywords.

Therefore Frame.__init__ is called with:
   __init__(self,None, name="some name", height="100")

Without **kw, there is no other way to send an arbitary number of
parameters to Frame.__init__.

- Sandip


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