On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:49 AM, eShopping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a GUI program that extracts some information from the user as > strings, and I then want to use the strings to form an argument list to > another function. Hopefully the following code gives some flavour: > > def myfunc(**kwargs): > while kwargs: > name, value = kwargs.popitem() > print name, value > > myfunc(a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4) > arg_str = "a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4" > myfunc(arg_str) > > ARG_STR will be built up from the data extracted from the GUI. I get this > error > > TypeError: myfunc() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) > > I understand that ARG_STR is a string and that MYFUNC is expecting something > else ,,, but not sure what it is. I have tried various dictionary > configurations such as > > arg1 = ["a","b","c","d"] > arg2 = [1,2,3,4] > arg3 = dict(zip(arg1,arg2)) > myfunc(arg3)
If you want to pass a dict containing the keywords, rather than actual keywords, the syntax is myfunc(**arg3) It parallels the syntax used to define myfunc(). Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
