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Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments?

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>> Contrived example:
>> def send_email(from, to, subj, body, whatever, other, headers, you, like):
>
> That should be a dictionary with the header names as indexes.  In fact
> there are already some email handling modules in the stdlib that
> represent headers that way.

That's also plausible, but keyword arguments do make sense. And this
was a top-of-the-head contrived example; I'm sure there are plenty of
good use-cases.

ChrisA

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Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? bruceg113355@gmail.com - 2012-11-09 16:48 -0800
  Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-09 20:05 -0500
    Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-10 01:16 +0000
      Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? bruceg113355@gmail.com - 2012-11-10 05:15 -0800
        Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-11 05:33 +1100
  Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-09 18:52 -0800
    Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-10 14:56 +1100
      Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-09 20:05 -0800
        Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-10 20:19 +1100
  Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 20:17 -0800
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        Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments? bruceg113355@gmail.com - 2012-11-10 09:56 -0800
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