Pythonic way to have a choice of 2-3 options as an argument to a function

Question

I have a Python function which requires a number of parameters, one of which is the type of simulation to perform. For example, the options could be \"solar\", \"view\" or \"bot

Answer 1

You can use optional (keyword) arguments like this

def func(a, b, c, **kw):
    if kw.get('do_solar'):
        # Do Solar
    if kw.get('do_view'):
        # Do view