# Keyword Arguments vs Dict

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 17, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyword-arguments-vs-dict/33500 "2020-01-17T18:31:43Z")\
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Not sure if I understand the question, but you can take ArgParse dictionary and convert to named tuple, then call your method with keyword args by spreading this tuple.

> [@How to make a named tuple from a dictionary?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-named-tuple-from-a-dictionary/10899):
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> Is there a simple way to make a named tuple from a Dict{Symbol, T}?

Example:

```julia
function asdf(x = 1, y = 4) return x, y; end
nt = (x=4, y=134)
asdf(nt...)

```

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