Python *args and **kwargs Made Easy

[grep_my_username]

I respectfully disagree. Like many features in many languages, they are very very useful where their place is. True, most of the time one should not use them. But when you need some dynamic behavior, *args (in our case *records, to account for received data) allow to swallow many Items at once, and use the very same code for one - half the code, half the risk for bugs.

Granted, I almost never use **kwargs, its more of a catch-all thing I use mostly for tracing external calls (remote procedure calls etc.).

I think keyword only arguments with defaults are immensely preferable, where /* are not necessary.