is it possible to pass argument to a function in this way?

Question

I am trying to pass argument to a function in this fashion

GroupGeneralConfig(selectedGroup = "Group1")

and the function looks like this...

def GroupGeneralConfig(self, *args)
     img = str(args[0]) + "abc"

whenever i execute this program it is throwing like this...

TypeError: GroupGeneralConfig() got an unexpected keyword argument 'selectedGroup'

whats wrong here

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

2

You'll want the double star:

def GroupGeneralConfig(self, **kwargs):
    img = str(kwargs[selectedStreamGroup]) + "abc"

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Community

answered Mar 18 '13 at 09:02

miku

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '13 at 09:02

1

If you want to use kwargs you should define it first:

def GroupGeneralConfig(self, **kwargs):

answered Mar 18 '13 at 09:02

filmor

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '13 at 09:10

What you are passing in is a keyword argument, change your method to accept keyword arguments first. Like this

def GroupGeneralConfig(self, *args, **kwargs)
     img = str(args[0]) + "abc"

Then you can pass the arguments first and then the keyword arguments, like:

GroupGeneralConfig(arg_x, arg_y, kwarg_x=1, kwarg_y=2)

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