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.

The names *args and **kwargs are only by convention but there's no hard requirement to use them. You would use *args when you're not sure how many arguments might be passed to your function, i.e. it …

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 *args is used to pass an unknown number of arguments to a function. Quite similarly to calling printf() in C which accepts an unknown number of arguments.

Closed 2 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:

Nov 20, 2009 · Resources PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations Real Python: Python args and kwargs: Demystified What do * and ** before a variable name mean in a function signature?

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...

Jul 26, 2018 · For a Python 3 solution, you can use inspect.signature and filter according to the kind of parameters you'd like to know about. Taking a sample function with positional or keyword, keyword …

I'm using Visual Studio Code with the inbuilt Debugger in order to debug a Python script. Following this guide, I set up the argument in the launch.json file: But when I press on Debug, it says th...