🔒 i have a question in tkinter

[faint shore]

i have q

[whole zinc]

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[faint shore]

i want to know what *args, and **kwargs, mean?

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/VYSA

im making a window in tkinter

using classes

[sturdy moat]

*args and **kwargs are ways of accepting unlimited arguments in a function. By using it here, you're leaving the original class' signature intact

[toxic canopy]

!kwargs

[whole zinc]

The `*args` and `**kwargs` parameters

These special parameters allow functions to take arbitrary amounts of positional and keyword arguments. The names args and kwargs are purely convention, and could be named any other valid variable name. The special functionality comes from the single and double asterisks (*). If both are used in a function signature, *args must appear before **kwargs.

Single asterisk
*args will ingest an arbitrary amount of positional arguments, and store it in a tuple. If there are parameters after *args in the parameter list with no default value, they will become required keyword arguments by default.

Double asterisk
**kwargs will ingest an arbitrary amount of keyword arguments, and store it in a dictionary. There can be no additional parameters after **kwargs in the parameter list.

Use cases

• Decorators (see /tag decorators)
• Inheritance (overriding methods)
• Future proofing (in the case of the first two bullet points, if the parameters change, your code won't break)
• Flexibility (writing functions that behave like dict() or print())

See /tag positional-keyword for information about positional and keyword arguments

[toxic canopy]

Oh sweet

[faint shore]

so

the parameters are not needed?

only args and kwargs?

[sturdy moat]

this basically lets you pass along the same expected parameters of the parent class to the child class

so they behave the same way

you could change it if you wanted to modify the behaviour

[faint shore]

oh kk

thx

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