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Hara Gopal K
Courses Plus Student 10,027 Pointshow can we use *args in a class ?
Kenneth explained **kwargs, but how can we use *args in a Class and use them in the methods, any ideas ?
1 Answer
Jeffrey James
2,636 Points*args are positional arguments. Meaning, if you invoke an instance of the class and the signature of the __init__ method has a bunch of args, like __init__(self, name, breed, weight) then you'll probably pattern the init method after setting a bunch of self.name = name, self.breed = breed, etc...
Kwargs is more often relevant in passing data around through mixins or inheritance. Since Python code tends to be written in a more functional and modular paradigm (don't need classes all over the place!), I only tend to see situations like this when you're dealing with Framework code (like customizing a django method or creating a custom class to mirror some existing functionality in another library.
From a purely academic POV, hard to really reason about IMO :)