Jeff Epler jepler at inetnebr.com
Sun Jul 25 09:17:33 EDT 1999

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Brian,

When you're going to use "named" arguments, such as
	myfunc(a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4)
then it's appropriate to use
	def myfunc(**kw): pass
but when you're using unnamed arguments, such as
	myfunc(1, 2, 3, 4)
you want to use
	def myfunc(*args): pass

This makes sense, because for unnamed arguments the position is important
but there's no sensible key to give them if they were placed in a
dictionary---so instead, you get them as a tuple with "*args".  But if the
arguments are named, obviously they need to go into a dictionary.

Jeff
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