Variable arguments to a Python function

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:22:11AM -0400, Mahboob wrote:
> How can I pass variable number of arguments to a Python function and access
> them inside the function?
> 
> In Perl, you could write
> 
> sub all_of {
>     my $result = 1;
>     while ( @_) {
>         $result *= shift;
>        }
>     return result;
> }

Translated to Python:

def all_of(*args):
    result = 1
    for arg in args:
        result *= arg
    return result

-Andrew.