And I thought I might get away without using dicts...

Thanks, Greg



Greg Graham schrieb:
> Paul,
> 
> Python does not allow mixing variable length arguments and keyword arguments 
> in that way. To accomplish what you want, you must add an argument preceded 
> by a "**" which will be a dict containing all of the keyword arguments as 
> key, value pairs. You then have to retrieve the arguments from the dict by 
> name. When called, the keyword arguments must be last.
> 
> Here is a little example:
> 
> def test(*column_definitions, **options):
>     print "Column Definitions:" + ", ".join(column_definitions)
>     output_csv_filename = options.get('output_csv_filename', None)
>     print "Output csv filename: " + str(output_csv_filename)
> 
> 
>>>> test("kundennummer", "anrede", "vorname", "nachname", "plz", "ort", 
>>>> "adresse", "kontoinhaber", "blz", "kto", "bankname", "status", 
>>>> "spielbeginn", "letzte_aenderung", "importdatum", "briefdatum", 
>>>> "buchungsdatum", "stornodatum", output_csv_filename=None)
> Column Definitions:kundennummer, anrede, vorname, nachname, plz, ort, 
> adresse, kontoinhaber, blz, kto, bankname, status, spielbeginn, 
> letzte_aenderung, importdatum, briefdatum, buchungsdatum, stornodatum
> Output csv filename: None
> 
> Greg
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