This is a quick snippet to show very basic usage of *args and **kwargs in Python function calls

testMultiArgs.py

'''
Snippets for args and kwargs usage, both calling and handling *args and **kwargs

Created on July 15, 2014

@author Chris Coe

'''


def test_args_kwargs(*args, **kwargs):
    if args is not None:
        for arg in args:
            print(arg)

    if kwargs is not None:
        for k,v in kwargs.items():
            print('{} == {}'.format(k,v))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print ('='*25)
    # test with naming each arg from param list
    test_args_kwargs(test1='test1',test2='test2',test3='test3')
    print ('='*25)
    # test with passing in a dictionary of k/v pairs
    testKWargs = {'test1':'test1','test2':'test2','test3':'test3'}
    test_args_kwargs(**testKWargs)
    print ('='*25)
    # test with passing in direct arguments
    test_args_kwargs('test1','test2','test3')
    print ('='*25)
    # test with passing in list of arguments
    testArgs = ['test1','test2','test3']
    test_args_kwargs(*testArgs)
    print ('='*25)