While we're at it... Can someone point me to either an old post, or
documentation about tuple expansion with * ? I recently saw it used
and was shocked as i had no clue what it really did. I didn't know it
could be used outside of function definitions.
On 2/13/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Avi Kak wrote:
>
> > Suppose I write a function that I want to be called
> > with ONLY keyword argumnts, how do I raise an
> > exception should the function get called with
> > what look like position-specfic arguments?
>
> here's one way to do it:
>
> >>> def func(*args, **kw):
> ... def myrealfunc(a=1, b=2, c=3):
> ... print a, b, c
> ... if args:
> ... raise TypeError("invalid call")
> ... return myrealfunc(**kw)
> ...
> >>> func(1)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "<stdin>", line 5, in func
> TypeError: invalid call
> >>> func(a=3)
> 3 2 3
> >>> func()
> 1 2 3
>
> here's another one:
>
> >>> def func(dummy=None, a=1, b=2, c=3):
> ... if dummy is not None:
> ... raise TypeError("invalid call")
> ... print a, b, c
>
> (but this is easier to trick).
>
> hope this helps!
>
> </F>
>
>
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