Re: Doc for extended call syntax; was: Re: unzip array of arrays?

2009-01-27 Thread Bryan Olson
Mark Wooding wrote: Steve Holden 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

Re: Doc for extended call syntax; was: Re: unzip array of arrays?

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Wooding
Bryan Olson fakeaddr...@nowhere.org writes: Mark Wooding wrote: There's a full description of it in 5.4.3 in the Language Reference, but apparently not indexed. So I guess this means I can duck out of writing up a lecture on my own understanding of Python's extended call syntax. Great. I

Re: Doc for extended call syntax; was: Re: unzip array of arrays?

2009-01-25 Thread Mark Wooding
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

Doc for extended call syntax; was: Re: unzip array of arrays?

2009-01-24 Thread Bryan Olson
Tobiah wrote: Where can I read about this mysterious use of the '*'? Hmmm... that's a harder question than I thought. Am I missing it, or does Python's doc need a write-up of the extended call syntax? It only works in the context of the zip() function. It's hard to understand how the

Re: Doc for extended call syntax; was: Re: unzip array of arrays?

2009-01-24 Thread Steve Holden
Bryan Olson wrote: Tobiah wrote: Where can I read about this mysterious use of the '*'? Hmmm... that's a harder question than I thought. Am I missing it, or does Python's doc need a write-up of the extended call syntax? No, you aren't mistaken. Looking at the * symbol in the 2.6