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hifkanotiks
hifkanotiks

Reputation: 6075

How to not supply all the default arguments when calling Python function?

Let's say I have this function code:

def dosomething(thing1, thing2='hello', thing3='world'):
    print(thing1)
    print(thing2)
    print(thing3)

When calling it, I would like to be able to specify what thing3 is, but without having to say what thing2 is. (The code below is how I thought it might work...)

dosomething("This says 'hello fail!'", , 'fail!')

and it would say:

This says 'hello fail!'
hello
fail!

So is there a way to do it like that, or would I have to specify thing2 every time I wanted to say what thing3 was?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 96

Answers (2)

levi
levi

Reputation: 22697

Yes, you can:

dosomething("This says 'hello fail!'", thing3 = 'fail!')

Upvotes: 3

Hashmush
Hashmush

Reputation: 2053

Use keyword arguments

dosomething("This says 'hello fail!'", thing3='fail!')

Upvotes: 7

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