Paul Rubin no.email at nospam.invalid
Thu Mar 4 08:37:59 EST 2010

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Jonathan Fine <J.Fine at open.ac.uk> writes:
> I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs).  Any suggestions?
>
> Here's my use case:
>     def doit(fn , wibble, expect):
>         args, kwargs = wibble
>         actual = fn(*args, **kwargs)

I think this may have been broken in 3.x, but in 2.6 the compiler will
unpack directly if you put a tuple structure in the arg list:

         def doit(fn, (args, kwargs), expect):
             actual = fn(*args, **kwargs)

Otherwise I'd just say "all_args" or some such.  Or just "args" which
you unpack into "pos_args" (positional args) and "kw_args".

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