Putting *args and/or **kwargs as the last items in your function definition’s argument list allows that function to accept an arbitrary number of arguments and/or keyword arguments.

Aug 31, 2008 · The *args and **kwargs are common idioms to allow an arbitrary number of arguments to functions, as described in the section more on defining functions in the Python tutorial.

Is there a simple example to explain how *args and **kwargs are used? Also the tutorial I found used just the "*" and a variable name. Are *args and **kwargs just placeholders or do you use exactly …

May 19, 2014 · The items in args will be unpacked and sent to the function as positional arguments, and the key/value pairs in kwargs will be sent to the function as keyword arguments.

In Python 2.x (I use 2.7), which is the proper way to use default arguments with *args and **kwargs? I've found a question on SO related to this topic, but that is for Python 3: Calling a Python fu...

Closed 3 years ago. I use python to create my project settings setup, but I need help getting the command line arguments. I tried this on the terminal:

Just use the *args parameter, which allows you to pass as many arguments as you want after your a,b,c. You would have to add some logic to map args -> c,d,e,f but its a "way" of overloading.

May 4, 2016 · I'm trying out Python's type annotations with abstract base classes to write some interfaces. Is there a way to annotate the possible types of *args and **kwargs? For example, how …

4 Yes it's fine to use *args here. You should use *args when it's easier to read than a list of argument (def foo(a,b,c,d,e...)) and does not make harder to know which argument is used for what. Your …

args = parser.parse_args() if args.aggregation and (args.query or args.fields): print "-a and -q|-f are mutually exclusive ..." sys.exit(2) Of course, this little hack is only working for simple cases and it …