What is the purpose and use of **kwargs?

Question

What are the uses for **kwargs in Python?

I know you can do an objects.filter on a table and pass in a **kwargs argument. &nbs

Answer 1

Here's a simple function that serves to explain the usage:

def print_wrap(arg1, *args, **kwargs):
    print(arg1)
    print(args)
    print(kwargs)
    print(arg1, *args, **kwargs)

Any arguments that are not specified in the function definition will be put in the args list, or the kwargs list, depending on whether they are keyword arguments or not:

>>> print_wrap('one', 'two', 'three', end='blah', sep='--')
one
('two', 'three')
{'end': 'blah', 'sep': '--'}
one--two--threeblah

If you add a keyword argument that never gets passed to a function, an error will be raised:

>>> print_wrap('blah', dead_arg='anything')
TypeError: 'dead_arg' is an invalid keyword argument for this function