[Tutor] Optional parameter passing

[wormwood_3]

Hello all,

I have used *args and **kwargs to have a function accept optional parameters, but is there a lazy way to optionally pass parameters? For example, say my script can accept a number of parameters for a database connection, such as user, password, and database name. The function that makes the MySQL call has a default for user, say "root". So if the user didn't pass in a value for the user option, I don't want to pass it to the function doing the MySQL call. I don't want to have to do:

if options.user: 
    do_mysql_query(user)
else:
    do_mysql_query()

and so on for each possible option. Is there a better way?

Thanks,
Sam

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