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Passing parameters using **kargs

Thomas Philips tkpmep at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 7 22:58:07 EDT 2004 
I want to access parameters that are passed into a function using the
**kargs idiom. I define f(**kargs) via

def f(**kargs):
    print kargs
    .
    .

the keyword arguments are converted to a dictionary, so that if I type
f(a=1, b=2, c=3)

the function prints
{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c':3}

Now assume the function has three variables a, b and c to which I want
to assign the dictionary's values of 'a', 'b' and 'c'. How can I
assign kargs['a'] to a, kargs['b'] to b, and kargs['c'] to c. Should I
be trying to construct a string representation of each variable's name
and using that as a key, or am I just thinking about this the wrong
way?

Thomas Philips
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