ram wrote:
> Stupid question #983098403:
>
> I can't seem to pass an unpacked sequence and keyword arguments to a
> function at the same time. What am I doing wrong?
>
> def f(*args, **kw):
> for a in args:
> print 'arg:', a
> for (k,v) in kw.iteritems():
> print k, '=', v
>
>>>> f(1,2)
> arg: 1
> arg: 2
>
>>>> f(*[1,2])
> arg: 1
> arg: 2
>
>>>> f(1,2, a=1)
> arg: 1
> arg: 2
> a = 1
>
>>>> f(*[1,2], a=1)
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> f(*[1,2], a=1)
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
I don't know if it's because there's some potential ambiguity (that I'm
not seeing), but yeah, you just can't do that. This should work though...
>>> f(*[1, 2], **{'a':1})
noah
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