On 2/11/2011 8:06 AM, christian.posta wrote:
I searched quickly to see whether this may have been discussed before,
but it's possible my search criteria was not refined enough to get any
hits. Forgive me if this is a silly question..
I was reading some Python code from a third-party app for the django
project... i saw this in the code and I wasn't certain what it means,
nor could I find anything helpful from google.
Within the __call__ function for a class, I saw a method of that class
referred to like this:
*self.<method_name_here>()
The brackets indicate the method name.
What does the *self refer to??
Does it somehow indicate the scope of the 'self' variable?
Thanks in advance...
If the line appeared exactly as you have it here, then it would be a
syntax error. More likely is that you saw something like this:
self.do_something(*self.return_a_sequence())
Here, "return_a_sequence" could return any sequence or iterable. The *
indicates that whatever follows it is to be unpacked and passed into
"do_something" as a series of individual arguments. For example, if
"return_a_sequence" returns the tuple (1, 2, 3), then the above would be
functionally equivalent to:
self.do_somethign(1, 2, 3)
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