Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-High Target-2.8 bwic
New issue 1383 by pekka.klarck: Support for Python's keyword argument syntax
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1383
Python has so called keyword argument syntax which allows defining
functions like
def func(**kwargs):
pass
and then calling them like
func(foo=1, bar='two')
In this example the value of `kwargs` inside `func` would be a dictionary
{'foo': 1, 'bar': 'two'}.
Supporting this syntax with Python based test libraries would sometimes be
handy. For example, this would make it easier to add optional configuration
parameters to keywords in the new Process library (issue 485). We would
like to create keyword like this
def run_process(command, *args, **conf):
# ...
and call it like
Run Process ls -h cwd=/tmp
The idea would be that `conf` in the above example would contain
{'cwd': '/tmp'}.
Most likely this could be implemented so that if a function implementing a
keyword has keyword arguments, all arguments at the end of the keyword call
in format `name=value` would be put into it.
If there are also default values, populating them has preferences:
def example(foo='bar', **kwargs):
pass
Example foo=zap kw=arg second=kw_arg
In the above example `foo` would get value `zap` and `kwargs` would be
{'kw': 'arg', 'second': 'kw_arg'}.
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