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Python decorator that ignores unneeded keyword arguments
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import inspect | |
def ignore_unused_args(f): | |
arg_spec = inspect.getargspec(f) | |
def new_f(*args, **kwargs): | |
new_kwargs = {key:kwargs[key] for key in arg_spec.args if key in kwargs} | |
return f(*args, **new_kwargs) | |
new_f.spec = arg_spec | |
return new_f | |
# Example Usage | |
@ignore_unused_args | |
def fn_1(a, b, c=100): | |
print a,b,c | |
fn_1(a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4) | |
# Prints "1 2 3" | |
# Without the decorator, it would give an error: | |
# TypeError: fn_1() got an unexpected keyword argument 'd' |
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