Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathan Fine
Jonathan Fine wrote: Hi We can call a function fn using val = fn(*args, **kwargs) I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? Here's my use case: def doit(fn , wibble, expect): args, kwargs = wibble actual = fn(*args, **kwargs) if

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-04 Thread Aahz
In article , Tim Chase wrote: >Jonathan Fine wrote: >> >> We can call a function fn using >> val = fn(*args, **kwargs) >> >> I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? >> >> For now I'll use argpair, but if anyone has a better idea, I'll use it. > >In the le

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
Jonathan Fine wrote: > Hi > > We can call a function fn using > val = fn(*args, **kwargs) > > I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? > > Here's my use case: > def doit(fn , wibble, expect): > args, kwargs = wibble > actual = fn(*args, *

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Rubin
Jonathan Fine writes: > I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? > > Here's my use case: > def doit(fn , wibble, expect): > args, kwargs = wibble > actual = fn(*args, **kwargs) I think this may have been broken in 3.x, but in 2.6 the compiler

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Chase
Jonathan Fine wrote: We can call a function fn using val = fn(*args, **kwargs) I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? For now I'll use argpair, but if anyone has a better idea, I'll use it. In the legacy of C and Java (okay, that doesn't carry _much_

WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

2010-03-04 Thread Jonathan Fine
Hi We can call a function fn using val = fn(*args, **kwargs) I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? Here's my use case: def doit(fn , wibble, expect): args, kwargs = wibble actual = fn(*args, **kwargs) if actual != expect: