[Python-Dev] yeah! for Jeremy and Greg

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> It's too bad the Makefile doesn't have all the dependencies.  It seems
> that it's necessary to do a make clean before checking in a change
> that affects many files.

I updated again and rebuilt.

    >>> def sum(*args):
    ...     s = 0
    ...     for x in args: s = s + x
    ...     return s
    ... 
    >>> sum(2,3,4)
    9
    >>> sum(*[2,3,4])
    9
    >>> x = (2,3,4)
    >>> sum(*x)
    9
    >>> def func(a, b, c):
    ...     print a, b, c
    ... 
    >>> func(**{'a':2, 'b':1, 'c':6})
    2 1 6
    >>> func(**{'c':8, 'a':1, 'b':9})
    1 9 8
    >>> 

*cool*.

So does this completely obviate the need for "apply", then?

    apply(x, y, z)  <==>  x(*y, **z)


-- ?!ng