Typeerror: Function(self, Item, **kwargs) Takes Exactly 2 Arguments (3 Given)

I have a function, which puts data into a database, called new_item(): def new_item(self, item, **optional): After sending a web form, a function should check the user input and t

Solution 1:

You are providing three arguments to the function:

1. The implicit self argument, Market;
2. The list, which will be item; and
3. The dictionary, which causes the problem.

**optional is a special argument, that packs all of the keyword arguments not already specified into a dictionary, accessible within the function as optional (by convention, this is usually called kwargs).

A quick demonstration:

>>> defdemo(x, y=None, **kwargs):
    print'x: {0}'.format(x)
    print'y: {0}'.format(y)
    print'kwargs: {0}'.format(kwargs)


>>> demo('foo', y='bar', z='baz')
x: foo # 'x' positional argument
y: bar # 'y' keyword argument
kwargs: {'z': 'baz'} # unspecified keyword arguments

You can unpack a dictionary into keyword arguments with ** too:

>>> demo('foo', **{'y': 'bar', 'z': 'baz'})
x: foo
y: bar
kwargs: {'z': 'baz'}

Therefore if you want to pass the contents of the dictionary into the **optional argument, you could use that same syntax to unpack the dictionary into keyword arguments:

Market.new_item([request.form['title'], 
                 session.get('user_id'), 
                 request.form['category']], 
                **{'desc': request.form['desc'],
              # ^ note asterisks'place': request.form['place'],
                   'price': request.form['price'],
                   'ono': ono })

Solution 2:

Market.new_item(
    [request.form['title'], session.get('user_id'), request.form['category']], 
    optional={
        'desc': request.form['desc'],
        'place': request.form['place'],
        'price': request.form['price'],
        'ono': ono 
    }
)

Solution 3:

If you want to pass keyword arguments then you need to specify the argument name while calling the function.

This link has more info on keyword args

May be you need to modify your code to the following. Then it would work

Market.new_item([request.form['title'], session.get('user_id'), request.form['category']], 
'desc' = request.form['desc'],
'place' = request.form['place'],
'price' = request.form['price'],
'ono' = ono)

Hope this helps!