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Start your free trialBasel Kanaan
4,458 Pointswhats the different between **kwargs and *args is the first one only used for dictionaries?
and can we use the second one dictionaries also?
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Steven Parker
231,269 PointsThe conventional name "kwargs" stands for "keyword arguments" which are key/value pairs. The double-asterisk packing operator is specifically for converting these pairs into a dictionary.
On the other hand "args" are just simple arguments, and the single "splat" converts them into a list.
The names themselves are simply conventions, but mixing them up could be very confusing for another Python developer!
Nicholas Johnson
12,945 PointsNicholas Johnson
12,945 Points@Steven Parker, I thought the single asterisk converted them into a tuple, not a list?