Sorry Ivar,
It works fine, just needed to sort out which arguments came before and
after the ;
And yes both of your answers are want I'm looking for.
Thanks
Den fredag den 4. juli 2014 14.14.40 UTC+2 skrev Ivar Nesje:
>
> Not sure I understand. Do you want something like
>
> function foo(args...; kwargs...)
> bar(args...; kwargs...)
> end
>
> kl. 14:04:10 UTC+2 fredag 4. juli 2014 skrev Oliver Lylloff følgende:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
