Overview

In this short blog post, we talk about how and when you can take a method signature that defines input positional arguments by name, like this:

def foo(arg1, arg2, arg3):
    pass

and write code that will return a dictionary containing a keyword arguments-like structure:

>>> foo('red', 'blue', 'green')
{
    'arg1': 'red',
    'arg2': 'blue',
    'arg3': 'green'
}

We will cover an example of writing a decorator that utilizes input arguments from both the decorator and from the …