This is just a more concise/pythonic way of doing function arguments. Since Process/start_process have basically the same argument names we can simplify and use **kwargs which will pass the named arguments directly to Process(). This also allows us to add arguments to Process without touching start_process if we need. --- tools/test-runner | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/test-runner b/tools/test-runner index a71b9ef6..d1e1d42c 100755 --- a/tools/test-runner +++ b/tools/test-runner @@ -465,10 +465,10 @@ class TestContext: self.results = {} self.mainloop = GLib.MainLoop() - def start_process(self, args, wait=False, multi_test=False, env=None, check=False): - p = Process(args, wait, multi_test, env, ctx=self, check=check) + def start_process(self, args, **kwargs): + p = Process(args, ctx=self, **kwargs) - if not wait: + if not kwargs.get('wait', False): self.processes.append(p) return p -- 2.26.2