Keyword argument 'from'; invalid syntax

[Kai Kuehne]

Hi list!
I'm using pygmalion (magnolia api access lib) and want to
use the following method that it is offering:

magnolia.bookmarks_find(person='user', from=some_datetime)

As you may noticed, from is a keyword argument and so I
get the following error message from python:

File "<ipython console>", line 1
magnolia.bookmarks_find(person='user', from=some_datetime)
^
<type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: invalid syntax

I have tried to prepare a dict and then passing it to the
method afterwards:

>>d = {'person': 'user', 'from': vorgestern}
magnolia.bookmarks_find(d)

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: bookmarks_find() takes exactly 1
argument (2 given)

I'm out of ideas so help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Kai

[Paul Rubin]

"Kai Kuehne" <ka********@gmail.comwrites:

>d = {'person': 'user', 'from': vorgestern}
magnolia.bookmarks_find(d)

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: bookmarks_find() takes exactly 1
argument (2 given)

I'm out of ideas so help is greatly appreciated!

Try
magnolia.bookmarks_find(**d)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:33:20 +0200, Kai Kuehne wrote:

I have tried to prepare a dict and then passing it to the
method afterwards:

>>>d = {'person': 'user', 'from': vorgestern}
magnolia.bookmarks_find(d)

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: bookmarks_find() takes exactly 1
argument (2 given)

I'm out of ideas so help is greatly appreciated!

Try this:

magnolia.bookmarks_find(**d)

although I suspect that will probably raise an exception as well. Judging
by the error message, it looks like bookmarks_find() takes only a single
argument, which I imagine would be the "self" instance automatically
provided at runtime.

--
Steven.

[Kai Kuehne]

Hi Steven,

On 7/26/07, Steven D'Aprano <st***@remove.this.cybersource.com.auwrote:

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:33:20 +0200, Kai Kuehne wrote:
Try this:

magnolia.bookmarks_find(**d)

This works perfectly, thank you guys.
Kai

[Stargaming]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:40 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:33:20 +0200, Kai Kuehne wrote:

>I have tried to prepare a dict and then passing it to the method
afterwards:

>>>>d = {'person': 'user', 'from': vorgestern}
magnolia.bookmarks_find(d)

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: bookmarks_find() takes exactly 1
argument (2 given)

I'm out of ideas so help is greatly appreciated!

Try this:

magnolia.bookmarks_find(**d)

although I suspect that will probably raise an exception as well.
Judging by the error message, it looks like bookmarks_find() takes only
a single argument, which I imagine would be the "self" instance
automatically provided at runtime.

Could be bookmarks_find(person, **other), unpacking other manually.