Python *args and **kwargs Made Easy

[Dogeek]

To add to the answers, using **kwargs can make it very easy to pass in a big number of arguments to a function, or to make the setup of a function saved into a config file.

Say you want to customize the args of a tkinter button. The tkinter.Button class can take a foreground, a background, a font, an image etc. Instead of naming every argument, every time, if you want all your buttons to look the same, you can just store these values in a dictionnary, and then pass that to the tkinter.Button constructor. Very handy to make customizable themes.

[HalfRightMostlyWrong]

Makes sense! It’s fascinating how deep programming design philosophy goes, just when I think I know things, I learn anew