From 60e5077969cdf8b67c5802a60ea6e759bef4d354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:30:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow specifying variable options with the params argument.

---
 patoolib/baker.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/patoolib/baker.py b/patoolib/baker.py
index 94ed5fe..3f3d548 100644
--- a/patoolib/baker.py
+++ b/patoolib/baker.py
@@ -185,9 +185,12 @@ class Baker(object):
         # If the user didn't specify
         shortopts = shortopts or {}
 
-        # Zip up the keyword argument names with their defaults
         if defaults:
+            # Zip up the keyword argument names with their defaults
             keywords = dict(zip(arglist[0-len(defaults):], defaults))
+        elif has_kwargs:
+            # allow keyword arguments specified by params
+            keywords = dict(zip(params.keys(), [""]*len(params)))
         else:
             keywords = {}