Given a string variable, and value variable pass them into a function as kwarg key and value

kwargs_from_strings.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Normally we call a function like so:

  some_function(key=value)

But what if we want to dynamically set a key and value from variables?
What if we want the function to expect a variable number of kwargs?

"""
from __future__ import print_function


def print_properties(**kwargs):
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        print('{}: {}'.format(key, value))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    property = 'foo'
    value = 'bar'
    print_properties(**dict([(property, value)]))