Single and double asterisks preceding variables in function arguments

[Aahz]

In article <bv3gdg$ms0sn$1 at ID-217427.news.uni-berlin.de>,
anton muhin  <antonmuhin at rambler.ru> wrote:
>
>See item 7.5 in Language Reference. In short: * declaries list of 
>additional parameters, while ** declares map of additional parameters. 

Actually, ``*`` forces creation of a tuple:

>>> def foo(*bar):
...   print type(bar)
...
>>> l = [1,2,3]
>>> foo(*l)
<type 'tuple'>
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