Passing a list of kwargs?

Question

Can I pass a list of kwargs to a method for brevity? This is what i\'m attempting to do:

def method(**kwargs):
    #do something

keywords = (keyword1 = \'fo         


        

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, you can do what you want by passing a dict. There are various ways to construct a dict. One that preserves the keyword=value style you attempted is to use the dict built-in:

keywords = dict(keyword1 = 'foo', keyword2 = 'bar')

Note the versatility of dict; all of these produce the same result:

>>> kw1 = dict(keyword1 = 'foo', keyword2 = 'bar')
>>> kw2 = dict({'keyword1':'foo', 'keyword2':'bar'})
>>> kw3 = dict([['keyword1', 'foo'], ['keyword2', 'bar']])
>>> kw4 = dict(zip(('keyword1', 'keyword2'), ('foo', 'bar')))
>>> assert kw1 == kw2 == kw3 == kw4
>>> 

Answer 2

So when I've come here I was looking for a way to pass several **kwargs in one function - for later use in further functions. Because this, not that surprisingly, doesn't work:

def func1(**f2_x, **f3_x):
     ...

With some own 'experimental' coding I came to the obviously way how to do it:

def func3(f3_a, f3_b):
    print "--func3--"
    print f3_a
    print f3_b
def func2(f2_a, f2_b):
    print "--func2--"
    print f2_a
    print f2_b

def func1(f1_a, f1_b, f2_x={},f3_x={}):
    print "--func1--"
    print f1_a
    print f1_b
    func2(**f2_x)
    func3(**f3_x)

func1('aaaa', 'bbbb', {'f2_a':1, 'f2_b':2}, {'f3_a':37, 'f3_b':69})

This prints as expected:

--func1--
aaaa
bbbb
--func2--
1
2
--func3--
37
69

Answer 3

Yes. You do it like this:

def method(**kwargs):
  print kwargs

keywords = {'keyword1': 'foo', 'keyword2': 'bar'}
method(keyword1='foo', keyword2='bar')
method(**keywords)

Running this in Python confirms these produce identical results:

{'keyword2': 'bar', 'keyword1': 'foo'}
{'keyword2': 'bar', 'keyword1': 'foo'}

Answer 4

Do you mean a dict? Sure you can:

def method(**kwargs):
    #do something

keywords = {keyword1: 'foo', keyword2: 'bar'}
method(**keywords)