Single and double asterisks preceding variables in function arguments

Eric Amick eric-amick at comcast.net
Mon Jan 26 20:15:22 EST 2004


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:51:02 -0600, Stephen Boulet
<stephendotboulet at motorola_._com> wrote:

>I've run across code like "myfunction(x, *someargs, **someotherargs)", 
>but haven't seen documentation for this.
>
>Can someone fill me in on what the leading * and ** do? Thanks.

Try section 4.7.2 of the tutorial.

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Eric Amick
Columbia, MD



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