Thanks Ivar,
That's indeed the obvious choice for the general case.
However for my example, the function PyPlot.contourf can't take a tuple as
input, so they must be converted from e.g. (:cmap,"hot") to cmap="hot".
Hope it makes sense.
Oliver
Den fredag den 4. juli 2014 13.47.10 UTC+2 skrev Ivar Nesje:
>
> function foo(args...)
> bar(args...)
> end
>
> kl. 13:42:29 UTC+2 fredag 4. juli 2014 skrev Oliver Lylloff følgende:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to write a function that takes an unknown number of variables
>> and insert those into another function
>>
>> function foo(args...)
>> bar(args)
>> end
>>
>> Is there any obvious way of converting the tuple of args into something
>> callable by bar?
>>
>> In my example, I'm trying to create a custom plotting function with
>> PyPlot and retain the possibility of changing the function inputs:
>>
>> function mycontour(x,y,b;kwargs...)
>> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(colwidth,0.85colwidth),tight_layout=true)
>> contourf(x,y,b,kwargs)
>> axis("equal")
>> axis("tight")
>> # and several other settings
>> end
>>
>> Note that in this case it is probably only keyword arguments thats going
>> to used but I still think the general case with args is useful.
>>
>> I would like to be able to call mycontour with e.g.
>> mycontour(x,y,b;levels=[1:10],cmap="CMRmap_r") and have the kwargs inserted
>> into contourf(x,y,b,levels=[1:10],cmap="CMRmap_r"). Where levels and cmap
>> are valid keywords of contourf.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Best,
>> Oliver
>>
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