Unpacking is to extract each element in a sequence or map separately. A simple way to use sequence unpacking is to extract the first or first few elements and the following elements separately, for example:
first, seconde, *rest = sequence
If there are at least three elements in sequence, then after executing the above code, first == sequence[0], second == sequence[0], rest == sequence[2:].
The function receives uncertain parameters
When the parameters of the function are uncertain, you can use *args and **kwargs. *args has no key value, and **kwargs has a key value.
#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding:utf-8 -*- import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') ''' 当函数的参数不确定时,可以使用*args 和**kwargs,*args 没有key值,**kwargs有key值。 ''' def fun_var_args_kwargs(data1, *args, **kwargs): print 'data1:', type(data1), data1 print '*args:', type(args), args print '**kwargs:', type(kwargs), kwargs fun_var_args_kwargs('this is data1', 2, '3', 4.0, k1='value1', k2='value2') print '-------------' def print_args(*args, **kwargs): print args.__class__.__name__, args, kwargs.__class__.__name__, kwargs print_args() print_args(1, 2, 3, a='A')
Print results:
data1: <type 'str'> this is data1 *args: <type 'tuple'> (2, '3', 4.0) **kwargs: <type 'dict'> {'k2': 'value2', 'k1': 'value1'} ------------- tuple () dict {} tuple (1, 2, 3) dict {'a': 'A'}