*args, **kwargs in jinja2 macros

How are extra args & kwargs handled for a Jinja2 macro? The documentation isn't exactly clear offhand.

For example, this is clearly wrong:

{% macro example_1(one, two, **kwargs) %}
    do macro stuff
{% endmacro %}

which results in

jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError

TemplateSyntaxError: expected token 'name', got '**'

The documentation says:

> kwargs > > Like varargs but for keyword arguments. All unconsumed keyword arguments are stored in this special variable.

Unfortunately, any combo of extra keyword arguments is an error,

{% macro example_2(one, two) %}
    do macro stuff
{% endmacro %}

{{ example_2(one, two, test='test') }}

TypeError: macro 'example_2' takes no keyword keyword argument 'test'

I have no examples and am not poking about in the Jinja2 source code atm. The documentation isn't clear to me at this point. Any thoughts appreciated.

The trick is that kwargs has to be accessed at least once in any macro that should accept them. That is to say, you must call {{ kwargs }} once in macro body without declaring it in macro argument list. The same is true for {{ varargs }}.

This will not work

{% macro example_2(one, two) %}
    * {{one}} - {{two}}
{% endmacro %}
{{example_2(1, 2, test="Hello")}}

This will

{% macro example_2(one, two) %}
    * {{one}} - {{two}}
    * {{kwargs}}
{% endmacro %}
{{example_2(1, 2, test="Hello")}}