From 0200b490636d4bc55a2ccb0850496c655cbc1391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kpe <kpe.git@gmailbox.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:54:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] v0.4.0 - allowing a Params(*args, **kwargs) construction with
 overriding class defaults with args and kwargs.

---
 params/__init__.py         |  2 +-
 params/params.py           |  3 ++-
 tests/test_construction.py | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/params/__init__.py b/params/__init__.py
index 93b9616..4cc69bf 100644
--- a/params/__init__.py
+++ b/params/__init__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 
 from .params import Params
 
-__version__ = '0.3.1'
+__version__ = '0.4.0'
diff --git a/params/params.py b/params/params.py
index 8aa2a06..0154123 100644
--- a/params/params.py
+++ b/params/params.py
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@ class MyParams(Params):
             params = MyParams(another_param=2.0)  # raises ValueError
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super(Params, self).__init__()
         self.update(self.__class__.defaults())
+        self.update(dict(*args))
         self.update(kwargs)
 
     def __getattribute__(self, attr):
diff --git a/tests/test_construction.py b/tests/test_construction.py
index 50b5d0f..5715980 100644
--- a/tests/test_construction.py
+++ b/tests/test_construction.py
@@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ def test_from_dict(self):
         self.assertEqual({'param_a': 3, 'param_b': 4}, params)
         self.assertIsInstance(params, dict)
 
+    def test_construct_dict(self):
+        params = MyParams(param_a=99)
+        self.assertEqual(99, params.param_a)
+        params = MyParams(params, param_b=101)
+        self.assertEqual(99, params.param_a)
+        self.assertEqual(101, params.param_b)
+        params = MyParams(params, param_a=101)
+        self.assertEqual(101, params.param_a)
+        self.assertEqual(101, params.param_b)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()