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.

Nov 20, 2009 · Notes kwargs is variable name used for keyword arguments, another variable name can be used. The important part is that it's a dictionary and it's unpacked with the double …

Jul 8, 2009 · What is the proper way to use **kwargs in Python when it comes to default values? kwargs returns a dictionary, but what is the best way to set default values, or is there one? …

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.

return fun(*args, **kwargs) return ret_fun real_decorator = partial(_pseudo_decor, argument=arg) @real_decorator def foo(*args, **kwargs): pass Update: Above, foo becomes …

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 …

Note that *args/**kwargs is part of function-calling syntax, and not really an operator. This has a particular side effect that I ran into, which is that you can't use *args expansion with the print …

May 4, 2016 · I'm trying out Python's type annotations with abstract base classes to write some interfaces. Is there a way to annotate the possible types of *args and **kwargs? For example, …

I am just curious about **kwargs. I am just started learning it, So while going through all the question on stackoverflow and video tutorials I notice we can do like this def …

Jan 31, 2013 · super(Child, self).save(commit, **kwargs) # more logic It avoids accessing commit argument from *args and **kwargs and it keeps things safe if the signature of Parent:save …