splinecraft
9/19/2016 - 4:37 AM

Example of having default values and overriding them with kwargs From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098549/proper-way-to-use-kwargs-in

Example of having default values and overriding them with kwargs From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098549/proper-way-to-use-kwargs-in-python

kwargs_example.py
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def testFunc( **kwargs ):     
  options = { 'option1' : 'default_value1',             
              'option2' : 'default_value2',             
              'option3' : 'default_value3', }      
  options.update(kwargs)     
  print options  
  
  testFunc( option1='new_value1', option3='new_value3' ) 
  # {'option2': 'default_value2', 'option3': 'new_value3', 'option1': 'new_value1'}  
  
  testFunc( option2='new_value2' ) 
  # {'option1': 'default_value1', 'option3': 'default_value3', 'option2': 'new_value2'}