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Add a parameter into kwargs during function call?

Is there a way to add key-value-pair into kwargs during the function call? def f(**kwargs): print(kwargs) # ... pre_defined_…

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Python: Difference between kwargs.pop() and kwargs.get()

I have seen both ways but I do not understand what the difference is and what I should use as "…

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How do I loop through **kwargs in Python?

In the code below, I want to read obj.subject and place it into var subject, also read obj.body …

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Why am I getting this unexpected keyword argument TypeError?

I'm testing some code with *args and **kwargs, and I wrote a dictionary for the **kwargs. For some reason, I'm …

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Python: Passing parameters by name along with kwargs

In python we can do this: def myFun1(one = '1', two = '2'): ... Then we can call the function …

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Why use **kwargs in python? What are some real world advantages over using named arguments?

I come from a background in static languages. Can someone explain (ideally through example) the real world advantages of using **…

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Python: How can I enable use of kwargs when calling from command line? (perhaps with argparse)

suppose I have the module myscript.py; This module is production code, and is called often as %dir%>python …

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named parameters with default values in groovy

Is it possible to have named parameters with default values in groovy? My plan is to make a sort of …

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empty dictionary as default value for keyword argument in python function: dictionary seems to not be initialised to {} on subsequent calls?

Here's a function. My intent is to use keyword argument defaults to make the dictionary an empty dictionary if it …

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Django pre_save signal: check if instance is created not updated, does kwargs['created'] (still) exist?

I am using Django's pre_save signal to implement auto_now_add. There is a lot of discussion on the …

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