What does ** and * do for python parameters?
The *args and **kwargs ist a common idiom to allow arbitrary number of arguments to functions as described in the section more on defining functions in the the python documentation.
The *args will give you all funtion parameters a a list:
In [5]: def bar(**kwargs): ...: for a in kwargs: ...: print a, kwargs[a] ...: ...: In [6]: bar(name="one", age=27)age 27name one
