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I want to generate parameters for figures dynamically, pass as arguments to Matplotlib.

Example to illustrate, this works:

dict = {'x_tick_fontsize':12 ,'x_tick_weight':'normal','x_tick_rotation':15}
            
plt.xticks(fontsize = dict['x_tick_fontsize']  
           ,weight = dict['x_tick_weight'] 
           ,rotation = dict['x_tick_rotation'])

This doesn't, but I want it to:

my_params_string = "fontsize = 12, weight ='normal', rotation = 15"
plt.xticks(my_params_string)

What can I try next?

halfer
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    First, don't use `dict` as a variable name! Second, `plt.xticks(**my_dict)` should work fine. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36901/what-does-double-star-asterisk-and-star-asterisk-do-for-parameters – Jody Klymak Jun 27 '23 at 05:59
  • @Jody, why do you say don't use `dict`? It's redundant? – Programming_Learner_DK Jun 27 '23 at 06:25
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    `dict` is a built-in function to construct a dictionary. By assigning it to a variable, you can't use the built-in anymore. Same goes with `list`, `set`, `tuple`, `sum`, `iter` etc. – paime Jun 27 '23 at 09:11
  • @JodyKlymak if you post as an answer I will accept - it worked. Thx! – Programming_Learner_DK Jun 27 '23 at 09:40
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