Data Dictionaries in Python

[mrsenorchuck]

What is kwargs in your snippet?

kwargs is just a name used by convention for keyword-arguments.
The ** in front the name is important.
Then all keyword-arguments, which are left over, are mapped into a dict.

def foo(**kwargs):
    print(kwargs)


foo(name='Bar', age=1, color='green')

Output:
{'name': 'Bar', 'age': 1, 'color': 'green'}

Since Python 3.8 we have:

• positional only arguments (this is new)
  
• arguments
  
• keyword-arguments
  

Thank you for your reply, I am on python 3.7. Isn't python 3.8 in beta?

I need to work with 3.7 due to a restriction on the device I am working on.