On Sep 9, 9:45 am, Andrey Fedorov <anfedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've written a function [1] called apply_some which takes a set of > keywords arguments, filters only those a function is expecting, and > calls the function with only those arguments. This is meant to > suppress TypeErrors - a way to abstract the logic which checks what > arguments a passed-in function accepts. > > For example: > > > def foo(x=1, y=2): > > return (x,y) > > > apply_some(foo, y=0, z="hi") // calls foo(y=0) > > -> (1,0) > > I'd like to expand this to fill undefined arguments with None, but > before I do, does anyone know of any packages/libraries which either > do something similar or would make this code cleaner?
I don't know of any, but I would be surprised of the code you posted could be made any cleaner. Even if it's possible to improve your implementation of apply_some, your usage is as clean and straightforward as it gets. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
