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<span id="howto-operator-pythonoperator"></span><h1>PythonOperator<a class="headerlink" href="#pythonoperator" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Use the <a class="reference internal" href="../../_api/airflow/operators/python_operator/index.html#airflow.operators.python_operator.PythonOperator" title="airflow.operators.python_operator.PythonOperator"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PythonOperator</span></code></a> to execute
Python callables.</p>
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<p class="example-header example-header--with-button"><span class="example-title">airflow/example_dags/example_python_operator.py</span><a class="example-header-button viewcode-button reference internal" href="../../_modules/airflow/example_dags/example_python_operator.html"><span>View Source</span></a></p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">print_context</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">pprint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ds</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="s1">&#39;Whatever you return gets printed in the logs&#39;</span>
<span class="n">run_this</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PythonOperator</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">task_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;print_the_context&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">provide_context</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">python_callable</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">print_context</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">dag</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">dag</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>Passing in arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#passing-in-arguments" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">op_args</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">op_kwargs</span></code> arguments to pass additional arguments
to the Python callable.</p>
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<p class="example-header example-header--with-button"><span class="example-title">airflow/example_dags/example_python_operator.py</span><a class="example-header-button viewcode-button reference internal" href="../../_modules/airflow/example_dags/example_python_operator.html"><span>View Source</span></a></p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_sleeping_function</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_base</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;This is a function that will run within the DAG execution&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sleep</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_base</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Generate 5 sleeping tasks, sleeping from 0.0 to 0.4 seconds respectively</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">task</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PythonOperator</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">task_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;sleep_for_&#39;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">python_callable</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">my_sleeping_function</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">op_kwargs</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">&#39;random_base&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">},</span>
<span class="n">dag</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">dag</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">run_this</span> <span class="o">&gt;&gt;</span> <span class="n">task</span>
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<h2>Templating<a class="headerlink" href="#templating" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>When you set the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">provide_context</span></code> argument to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, Airflow passes in
an additional set of keyword arguments: one for each of the <a class="reference internal" href="../../macros.html"><span class="doc">Jinja
template variables</span></a> and a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">templates_dict</span></code> argument.</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">templates_dict</span></code> argument is templated, so each value in the dictionary
is evaluated as a <a class="reference internal" href="../../concepts.html#jinja-templating"><span class="std std-ref">Jinja template</span></a>.</p>
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