How to call a method with variing arguments

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:40:49PM -0700, Heiko wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to do this:
> 
> ClassObject = Class()
> ClassObject.Method(Arg1, Arg2, Arg3)
> ...
> ClassObject.Method(Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, Arg4, Arg5 ....)
> ...
> ClassObject.Method()
> ...
> and so on.
> 
> Means that I want to call a method with a variing number of arguments
> and the method decides what to do.

Define Method as

def Method(self, *args):
	# stuff goes here

Inside this method, 'args' will be a tuple of the arguments in the order
they are passed and you can do whatever you like with them. Look at the
page ref/function.html in the Language Documentation for more
information (about halfway down that page).

> If possible, it would be nice, if the sequence of the arguments
> doesn´t matter, and the method realizes which argument is on which
> position (but that is a "nice to have").

I don't really know what you mean here, since I don't know how the
function is meant to know which argument belongs where.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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