Sorry about that last message. Kent just posted and answered my question with his example. Thank you all!
Jacob > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob S. > > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:54 PM > > To: Kent Johnson > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Tutor] "TypeError: 'int' object is not callable"?? > > > > Hey, could you give an example? > > Thanks, > > Jacob > > > > > > > > apply() is deprecated; it has been replaced by 'extended > > call syntax'. > > Instead of > > > apply(fn, args, kwds) > > > you can now write > > > fn(*args, **kwds) > > > > > > Kent > > Here is a quick example I came up with: > > >>> def spam(*args, **kwargs): > ... print "Here are the args you supplied:" > ... for item in args: > ... print item > ... print > ... print "Here are the kwargs you supplied:" > ... for key,value in kwargs.items(): > ... print key, '=', value > ... > >>> spam(1,'a','eggs',s=0, p=1, a=2, m=3) > Here are the args you supplied: > 1 > a > eggs > > Here are the kwargs you supplied: > a = 2 > p = 1 > s = 0 > m = 3 > > In the case of the spam() function, 1, 'a', and 'eggs' are all put into > the sequence args (not sure if it is a list or tuple). The key/value > pairs are bundled into the dictionary kwargs. The arguments have to be > given in the right order though: > > >>> spam(t=1, b=1, 'this', 'will', 'fail') > Traceback (SyntaxError: non-keyword arg after keyword arg > > HTH! > > Christian > http://www.dowski.com > > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
