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Hara Gopal K
Courses Plus Student 10,027 Points**kwargs is a dictionary ?
where is the dictionary that we are trying to unpack ? is kwargs a dictionary created on-the-fly with class variables/attributes as keys and values ?
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Steven Parker
229,783 PointsThe name "kwargs" is commonly used as a parameter name in a method definition.
It represents the dictionary that will be passed in as an argument when that method is called elsewhere in the program. It's generally only used along with the unpacking operator (**) to make it clear that unpacking is being used, and is a best-practice convention and not a language requirement.