Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am looking for an elegant way to solve the following problem: >>> >>> Within a function >>> >>> def Foo(**parms) >>> >>> I have a list of names, say VList=['A','B','C1'] >>> and I like to generate abbreviation >>> _A identical to parms['A'] >> >> Could you explain what you mean by that? Your sample code doesn't >> seem to do any "abbreviation"... >> Otherwise I don't see why you don't just have a proper parameter >> list. > > In my application parms contains field names of an html form iff these > fields have been modified. > I'd like to use the short name _A instead of the longer expression > parms['A'] > > You haven't yet explained why you don't just do:
def foo(A=None, **parms): ... The code to call foo remains the same as before, but Python will unpack the named parameter into the local variable A for you automatically. Any other parms that you didn't know about in advance remain in the separate dictionary. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
