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
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
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
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
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