Python 3 - How to 'convert' a function taking a dict as arguments to one which takes keyword arguments?

Question

I have a function g() with takes a dict as an argument, ex:

>> g({'a':'foo', 'b':'bar', 'c','baz'})
a = foo
b = bar
c = baz

I would like to 'convert' g() or create a new function f() from g() such that it would take positional arguments instead of a dictionary, ex:

>> f(a='foo', b='bar', c='baz')
a = foo
b = bar
c = baz

Background:

• My goal is to write a small API which will make it easy for users to leverage this core package: https://github.com/fmfn/BayesianOptimization.
• To use the API, users will have to provide their user-defined-function.
• My future API will provide the user-defined-function to the core package.
• The core package expects functions which take positional arguments (not a dict).
• These user-defined-function are potentially complex and will most likely take many arguments, I would rather tell users to build their functions taking dictionaries as an argument rather than a long list of positional arguments (and do some kind of transformation within my API before invoking the core package).

Or can anyone think of a better way to address this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have found a simple way to solve the problem

Here is a simple function g taking a dict as an argument I want to 'convert':

>>> def g(my_dict):
        print('a:', str(my_dict['a']))
        print('b:', str(my_dict['b']))

A new function f which takes keyword arguments can easily be created from g:

>>> def f(**kwargs):
        return g(kwargs)

Let's try f with keyword args:

>>> f(a='foo', b='bar')
a: foo
b: bar

f will not work with positional args:

>>> f('foo', 'bar')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-619-505f263ccdf6> in <module>()
----> 1 f(1, 2)

TypeError: f() takes 0 positional arguments but 2 were given

Notes:

1. I originally asked the 'converted' function f to take positional arguments. After doing additional research, I found out I what I meant was keyword arguments. I used the wrong terminology in the question, my apologies.
2. My attempts with decorators as proposed by @COLDSPEED were only partially successful: I was able to create a function f which seemed to work but somehow the rest of the code was seeing the values it returned as None. Feel free to comment if you have an explanation.