On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Brandon Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I attempt to pass a keyword arg to it:
>
> models.signals.post_save.connect(scrub_directory, sender=TheModel,
> {'my_kwarg' : 'some_value'})
>
> I get a syntax error: keyword argument appeared after a non-keyword
> argument.
Well, you're getting a syntax error because, erm, you have a syntax error.
What you've got in that line is a positional argument
(`scrub_directory`) followed by a keyword argument
(`sender=TheModel`), followed by a positional argument (the dictionary
`{'my_kwarg' : 'some_value'}`). You can't intersperse keyword and
positional arguments like that.
You probably want `connect(scrub_directory, sender=TheModel,
my_kwarg='some_value')` or, if you've got a dictionary of arbitrary
arguments, `connect(..., **mydict)`.
If you want to understand what's going on there, spend some time
brushing up on defining and calling functions in Python.
http://martyalchin.com/2007/nov/22/dynamic-functions/ is a good place
to start, and the complete, in-depth guide is at
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#more-on-defining-functions.
Jacob
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