Top "Keyword-argument" questions

Keyword argument enable you to specify an argument for a particular argument by associating the argument with the argument's name rather than with the argument's position in the argument list.

args and kwargs in django views

Okay, I've tried searching for this for quite some time. Can I not pass args and kwargs to a view …

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kwargs parsing best practice

Is there a more compact/efficient way of doing this? for key in kwargs: if key == 'log': self.log = kwargs[…

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Setting the default value of a function input to equal another input in Python

Consider the following function, which does not work in Python, but I will use to explain what I need to …

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Using argparse with function that takes **kwargs argument

I'm using argparse to take input and pass it to a function that takes as arguments two variables and **kwargs. …

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Python Multiprocessing - How to pass kwargs to function?

How do I pass a dictionary to a function with Python's Multiprocessing? The Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/multiprocessing.…

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When to use keyword arguments aka named parameters in Ruby

Ruby 2.0.0 supports keyword arguments (KA) and I wonder what the benefits/use-cases are of this feature in context of pure …

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Python - unpacking kwargs in local function call

I would like to pass a dictionary: items = {"artist": "Radiohead", "track": "Karma Police"} as a parameter to this function: def …

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argparse argument order

I have a little problem. I use argparse to parse my arguments, and it's working very well. To have the …

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Get kwargs Inside Function

If I have a python function like so: def some_func(arg1, arg2, arg3=1, arg4=2): Is there a way to …

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passing kwargs with multiprocessing.pool.map

I would like to pass keyword arguments to my worker-function with Pool.map(). I can't find a clear example of …

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