Range Operation pre-PEP

[Fredrik Lundh]

Fredrik Lundh mistyped:

> a quick grep through the 2.0 standard library reveals about
> a hundred uses of the *args syntax.  a quick look at those
> didn't bring up a single function that uses *args to read an
> unbounded number of heterogenous arguments.

character eating nanovirii?  I'm pretty sure I wrote:

    "unbounded number of homogenous arguments."

(most uses appear to be methods that pass most or all of
their arguments on to another method.   no homogenous-
ness there...)

Over and out /F