Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: > No, you aren't mistaken. Looking at the "*" symbol in the 2.6 > documentation index it lists only two references. The first is the > language manual's explanation of its use in the def statement, the > second is a transitory reference to its use in function calls, but > that's in the tutorial where it is not likely to get much attention.
There's a full description of it in 5.4.3 in the Language Reference, but apparently not indexed. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list