I have a python function which looks like this:
def test(a, b, *args):
print(a, b, args)
And I have a dictionary (kwargs) which has only a and b as items in it. I would like to call test like this:
test(**kwargs)
and assign more values to args. How do I do it, and if I can't, What is the right way to do this?
You defined your function to always accept an either positional or keyword arguments: a and b, and a list of positional arguments after that.
In Python it's a Syntax Error to provide a positional argument after a keyword argument.
Therefore, you cannot use **kwargs dictionary unpacking in your method call, if you also want to provide additional positional arguments.
What you can do, though, is either use positional arguments only - making sure that a and b are the first two elements in your list.
Or if you really wan't to use a dictionary, You'd have to directly get a and b values, pass it positionally as a and b, and then get remaining items() from your dictionary and call your function with it. This will lose the key values though.