4.7.2 参数关键字 Keyword Arguments

Functions can also be called using keyword arguments of the form "keyword = value". For instance, the following function:

函数可以通过参数关键字的形式来调用，形如"keyword = value"。例如，以下的函数：

def parrot(voltage, state='a stiff', action='voom', type='Norwegian Blue'):
    print "-- This parrot wouldn't", action,
    print "if you put", voltage, "Volts through it."
    print "-- Lovely plumage, the", type
    print "-- It's", state, "!"

parrot(1000)
parrot(action = 'VOOOOOM', voltage = 1000000)
parrot('a thousand', state = 'pushing up the daisies')
parrot('a million', 'bereft of life', 'jump')

parrot()                     # required argument missing
parrot(voltage=5.0, 'dead')  # non-keyword argument following keyword
parrot(110, voltage=220)     # duplicate value for argument
parrot(actor='John Cleese')  # unknown keyword

In general, an argument list must have any positional arguments followed by any keyword arguments, where the keywords must be chosen from the formal parameter names. It's not important whether a formal parameter has a default value or not. No argument may receive a value more than once -- formal parameter names corresponding to positional arguments cannot be used as keywords in the same calls. Here's an example that fails due to this restriction:

通常，参数列表中的每一个关键字都必须来自于形式参数，每个参数都有对应的关键字。形式参数有没有默认值并不重要。实际参数不能一次赋多个值－－形式参数不能在同一次调用中同时使用位置和关键字绑定值。这里有一个例子演示了在这种约束下所出现的失败情况：

>>> def function(a):
...     pass
...
>>> function(0, a=0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: function() got multiple values for keyword argument 'a'

When a final formal parameter of the form **name is present, it receives a dictionary containing all keyword arguments whose keyword doesn't correspond to a formal parameter. This may be combined with a formal parameter of the form *name (described in the next subsection) which receives a tuple containing the positional arguments beyond the formal parameter list. (*name must occur before **name.) For example, if we define a function like this:

引入一个形如 **name 的参数时，它接收一个字典，该字典包含了所有未出现在形式参数列表中的关键字参数。这里可能还会组合使用一个形如 *name 的形式参数，它接收一个拓扑（下一节中会详细介绍），包含了所有没有出现在形式参数列表中的参数值。（*name 必须在 **name 之前出现）例如，我们这样定义一个函数：

def cheeseshop(kind, *arguments, **keywords):
    print "-- Do you have any", kind, '?'
    print "-- I'm sorry, we're all out of", kind
    for arg in arguments: print arg
    print '-'*40
    keys = keywords.keys()
    keys.sort()
    for kw in keys: print kw, ':', keywords[kw]

cheeseshop('Limburger', "It's very runny, sir.",
           "It's really very, VERY runny, sir.",
           client='John Cleese',
           shopkeeper='Michael Palin',
           sketch='Cheese Shop Sketch')

-- Do you have any Limburger ?
-- I'm sorry, we're all out of Limburger
It's very runny, sir.
It's really very, VERY runny, sir.
----------------------------------------
client : John Cleese
shopkeeper : Michael Palin
sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch

Note that the sort() method of the list of keyword argument names is called before printing the contents of the keywords dictionary; if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.

注意sort()方法在关键字字典内容打印前被调用，否则的话，打印参数时的顺序是未定义的。