Ha! That's what I was looking for! The builtin apply function! The only way I could send the *args to the function was through a list, and function calls see a list as one argument. The apply argument doesn't! Thanks Bob.
Jacob Schmidt > At 12:39 PM 12/8/2004, Bob Gailer wrote: > >At 11:27 AM 12/8/2004, Dick Moores wrote: > >>My thanks to both Max and Kent. So Python tries, and fails, to see 2() as > >>a function! > >> > >>I also got some help from <http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/c/call.html> > > > >Note that SOME languages use () for call. There are other call constructs, > >such as: > > > >DO function WITH parameters (FoxPro, similar in COBOL) > > > >function parameter or parameter1 function parameter2 (APL) > > I should add the Python builtin function apply: apply(function, parameters...) > > Bob Gailer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 303 442 2625 home > 720 938 2625 cell > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor