Call function without optional arguments if they are None

Question

There\'s a function which takes optional arguments.

def alpha(p1=\"foo\", p2=\"bar\"):
     print(\'{0},{1}\'.format(p1, p2))

Let me iterat

Answer 1

although ** is definitely a language feature, it's surely not created for solving this particular problem. Your suggestion works, so does mine. Which one works better depends on the rest of the OP's code. However, there is still no way to write f(x or dont_pass_it_at_all) - blue_note

Thanks to your great answers, I thought I'd try to do just that:

# gen.py
def callWithNonNoneArgs(f, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargsNotNone = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
    return f(*args, **kwargsNotNone)

 

# python interpreter
>>> import gen
>>> def alpha(p1="foo", p2="bar"):
...     print('{0},{1}'.format(p1,p2))
...
>>> gen.callWithNonNoneArgs(alpha, p1="FOO", p2=None)
FOO,bar
>>> def beta(ree, p1="foo", p2="bar"):
...     print('{0},{1},{2}'.format(ree,p1,p2))
...
>>> beta('hello', p2="world")
hello,foo,world
>>> beta('hello', p2=None)
hello,foo,None
>>> gen.callWithNonNoneArgs(beta, 'hello', p2=None)
hello,foo,bar

This is probably not perfect, but it seems to work: It's a function that you can call with another function and it's arguments, and it applies deceze's answer to filter out the arguments that are None.