Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Think of a tuple as an ordered collection. A given element's ordinal > position indicates its semantics (meaning, significance), and > generally it won't make sense to iterate over the elements of a tuple > (though naturally that doesn't stop people, and neither does the > interpreter).
def f(*a): ... is a fundamental language feature and really only makes sense in the context of iterating over tuples. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list