TypeError got multiple values for argument

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I read the other threads that had to do with this error and it seems that my problem has an interesting distinct difference than all the posts I read so far  namely  all the other posts so far have the error in regards to either a user created class or a builtin system resource  I am experiencing this problem when calling a function  I can t figure out what it could be for  Any ideas   BOX LENGTH   100 turtle speed 0  fill   0 for i in range 8       fill    1     if fill   2    0          Horizontol drawbox BOX LENGTH  fillBox   False      else          Horizontol drawbox BOX LENGTH  fillBox   True       for i in range 8           fill    1         if fill   2    0              Vertical drawbox BOX LENGTH fillBox   False          else              Vertical drawbox BOX LENGTH fillBox   True    Error message       Horizontol drawbox BOX LENGTH  fillBox   True  TypeError  Horizontol drawbox   got multiple values for argument  fillBox

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I was brought here for a reason not explicitly mentioned in the answers so far, so to save others the trouble:

The error also occurs if the function arguments have changed order - for the same reason as in the accepted answer: the positional arguments clash with the keyword arguments.

In my case it was because the argument order of the Pandas set_axis function changed between 0.20 and 0.22:

0.20: DataFrame.set_axis(axis, labels)
0.22: DataFrame.set_axis(labels, axis=0, inplace=None)

Using the commonly found examples for set_axis results in this confusing error, since when you call:

df.set_axis(['a', 'b', 'c'], axis=1)

prior to 0.22, ['a', 'b', 'c'] is assigned to axis because it's the first argument, and then the positional argument provides "multiple values".

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This also happens if you forget selfdeclaration inside class methods   Example   class Example        def is overlapping x1  x2  y1  y2             Thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 12888920 940592         return max x1  y1   lt   min x2  y2    Fails calling it like self is overlapping x1 2  x2 4  y1 3  y2 5   with       TypeError  is overlapping   got multiple values for argument  x1    WORKS   class Example        def is overlapping self  x1  x2  y1  y2             Thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 12888920 940592         return max x1  y1   lt   min x2  y2

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I had the same problem that is really easy to make  but took me a while to see through   I had copied the declaration to where I was using it and had left the  self  argument there  but it took me ages to realise that   I had  self myFunction self  a  b  c  123     but it should have been   self myFunction a  b  c  123

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Simply put you can t do the following   class C object       def x self  y    kwargs             Which y to use  kwargs or declaration           pass  c   C   y    Arbitrary value  kwargs  y      Arbitrary value  c x y    kwargs    FAILS   Because you pass the variable  y  into the function twice  once as kwargs and once as function declaration

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My issue was similar to Q---ten s  but in my case it was that I had forgotten to provide the self argument to a class function   class A      def fn a  b  c True           pass   Should become  class A      def fn self  a  b  c True           pass   This faulty implementation is hard to see when calling the class method as   a obj   A   a fn a val  b val  c False    Which will yield a TypeError  got multiple values for argument  Hopefully  the rest of the answers here are clear enough for anyone to be able to quickly understand and fix the error  If not  hope this answer helps you

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This happens when a keyword argument is specified that overwrites a positional argument  For example  let s imagine a function that draws a colored box  The function selects the color to be used and delegates the drawing of the box to another function  relaying all extra arguments   def color box color   args    kwargs       painter select color color      painter draw box  args    kwargs    Then the call  color box  blellow   color  green   height 20  width 30    will fail because two values are assigned to color   blellow  as positional and  green  as keyword   painter draw box is supposed to accept the height and width arguments    This is easy to see in the example  but of course if one mixes up the arguments at call  it may not be easy to debug     misplaced height and width color box 20  30  color  green     Here  color is assigned 20  then args  30  and color is again assigned  green

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This exception also will be raised whenever a function has been called with the combination of keyword arguments and args  kwargs Example  def function a  b  c   args    kwargs       print f quot a   a   b   b   c   c   args   args   kwargs   kwargs  quot    function a 1  b 2  c 3    4     And it ll raise  TypeError                                 Traceback  most recent call last   lt ipython-input-4-1dcb84605fe5 gt  in  lt module gt  ---- gt  1 function a 1  b 2  c 3    4     TypeError  function   got multiple values for argument  a    And Also it ll become more complicated  whenever you misuse it in the inheritance  so be careful we this stuff   1- Calling a function with keyword arguments and args  class A      def   init   self  a  b   args    kwargs           self a   a         self b   b      class B A       def   init   self   args    kwargs            a   1         b   2         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs   B 3  c 2   Exception  TypeError                                 Traceback  most recent call last   lt ipython-input-5-17e0c66a5a95 gt  in  lt module gt       11         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs       12  --- gt  13 B 3  c 2    lt ipython-input-5-17e0c66a5a95 gt  in   init   self   args    kwargs        9         a   1      10         b   2 --- gt  11         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs       12       13 B 3  c 2   TypeError    init     got multiple values for argument  a   2- Calling a function with keyword arguments and kwargs which it contains keyword arguments too  class A      def   init   self  a  b   args    kwargs           self a   a         self b   b      class B A       def   init   self   args    kwargs            a   1         b   2         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs   B     a   2    Exception  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError                                 Traceback  most recent call last   lt ipython-input-7-c465f5581810 gt  in  lt module gt       11         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs       12  --- gt  13 B     a   2     lt ipython-input-7-c465f5581810 gt  in   init   self   args    kwargs        9         a   1      10         b   2 --- gt  11         super B  self    init   a a  b b   args    kwargs       12       13 B     a   2    TypeError    init     got multiple values for keyword argument  a

[python] TypeError: got multiple values for argument

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