Pythonic way to write functions/methods with a lot of arguments

Question

Imagine this:

def method(self, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa):
    pass

The line overpass the 79 characters, so, what's the pythonic way to multiline it?

Answer 1

You can include line breaks within parentheses (or brackets), e.g.

def method(self, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta,
                 eta, theta, iota, kappa):
    pass

(the amount of whitespace to include is, of course, up to you)

But in this case, you could also consider

def method(self, *args):
    pass

and/or

def method(self, **kwargs):
    pass

depending on how you use the arguments (and how you want the function to be called).