Robert Dailey schrieb: > I noticed that the ** operator is used as the power operator, however > I've seen it used when passing variables into a function. For example, > I was researching a way to combine dictionaries. I found that if you > do this: > > a = {"t1":"a", "t2":"b"} > b = {"t3":"c"} > dict( a, **b ) > > > This combines the two dictionaries. However, I have no idea what the > ** operator is here. I know that when you specify ** as a parameter in > a function definition, it represents a dictionary of parameters passed > in. However, in this example it is NOT being used in a function > definition. It is being used when passing variables into a function. > Can someone explain what this means? I looked in the documentation but > I couldn't find anything.
It's the opposite to the function definition **-operator: def foo(a=0, b=1): print a,b foo(**{a:100, b:200}) -> 100 200 Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list