Question

Let’s say I have this function code:

def dosomething(thing1, thing2='hello', thing3='world'):
    print(thing1)
    print(thing2)
    print(thing3)

When calling it, I would like to be able to specify what thing3 is, but without having to say what thing2 is. (The code below is how I thought it might work…)

dosomething("This says 'hello fail!'", , 'fail!')

and it would say:

This says 'hello fail!'
hello
fail!

So is there a way to do it like that, or would I have to specify thing2 every time I wanted to say what thing3 was?

Answer 1

Use keyword arguments

dosomething("This says 'hello fail!'", thing3='fail!')