Hi Jacob, Thanks for the reply. My fault - I misread the post_save documentation, and thought it was able to accept **kwargs. I was able to work around the problem another way by just adding a @property to the model in question I can call from the instance passed to the signal.
Brandon On Mar 7, 10:26 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > athttp://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#more-on-defining-fun.... > > Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
