__init__ question

[Daniel Klein]

Is this part of the syntax or is this a regular expression? I can't find
this anywhere in the online documentation or in any of the four Python books
I have purchased. :^(

Dan:


"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <EvM16.270$LU6.118037 at typhoon.aracnet.com>,
> Daniel Klein <DanielK at aracnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >    def __init__(self, *args):
> >
> >What is the meaning of the '*args' expression?
>
> It means "accept any number of parameters here"; "args" is a tuple.  For
> example, I could create a print function instead of the blecherous
> redirected print statement as follows:
>
> def print (file=None, *args):
>     if not file:
>         file = sys.stdout
>     for arg in args:
>         file.write("%s " % arg)
>     file.write("\n")
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