How do you use *args and **kwargs?

[Gengar]

I need to know how to use args and kwargs for overloading purposes. Also, if someone knows about generators, explain those to me too.

[micseydel]

There are loads of resource across the internet. Did you have a question?

[nilamo]

def show_me_the_args(*args, **kwargs):
	print(args)
	print('----')
	print(kwargs)
	
show_me_the_args('spam', 42, fish='cooked', dinner=False)

# ('spam', 42)
# ----
# {'dinner': False, 'fish': 'cooked'}

Does that make sense?

[Ofnuts]

*args and **kwargs are shorthand to put positional arguments in a list, and keyword arguments in a dictionary. They work both ways, you can use them in a call (to use a list or a dict instead of separate args)) or in a function definition (so that the function body can iterate the args, or count them)..

A generator is a function that doesn't "return" but that "yield" instead. "Yield" is like return but a subsequent call to the iterator will start on the instruction that follows the yield. Very well explained here.