Hello all, I am just learning Python and have come across something I feel might be a bug. Please enlightenment me... The following code presents a challenge. How in the world do you provide an argument for *arg4?
## ============================================================ def argPrecedence(par1, par2=0, par3=0, *par4, **par5): print 'par1 =', par1, ' # positional argument' print 'par2 =', par2, ' # keyword argument' print 'par3 =', par3, ' # keyword argument' print 'par4 =', par4, ' # argument converted to tuple' print 'par5 =', par5, ' # argument converted to dictionary' argPrecedence('arg1', par3='arg3', par2='arg2', arg5='arg5') # argPrecedence Results: par1 = arg1 # positional argument par2 = arg2 # keyword argument par3 = arg3 # keyword argument par4 = () # argument converted to tuple par5 = {'arg5': 'arg5'} # argument converted to dictionary ## ============================================================ The code above is verbose with comments because I am just learning Python and am creating my own examples and reference materials... Can you solve the problem? If so, can you share the solution? If not, is this a bug, limitation or is it a feature? Thank you for your time on this one! PS. I could be far off with this codes purpose; to try and create an example that will house all the different possible parameters (positional, keyword, * and **) in one single def statement. -- Best Regards Victor B. Gonzalez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list