accessing elements in multi-dimensional sequences

[Rodrigo Daunaravicius]

On 28 May 2004 13:19:59 GMT, Duncan Booth wrote:

> Rodrigo Daunaravicius <rodelrod at hotmail.com> wrote in 
> news:1epn0wa5bqb0r$.heo8w4umjuxm$.dlg at 40tude.net:
> 
>> I couldn't find in the docs what
>> is the meaning of the asterisk in zip(*d), though. Nothing to do with C
>> pointers, I guess? 
> 
> Python Reference Manual, section 5.3.4 Calls:
> 
> If the syntax "*expression" appears in the function call, "expression" must 
> evaluate to a sequence. Elements from this sequence are treated as if they 
> were additional positional arguments; if there are postional arguments 
> x1,...,xN , and "expression" evaluates to a sequence y1,...,yM, this is 
> equivalent to a call with M+N positional arguments x1,...,xN,y1,...,yM.

Got it. I was looking in the wrong places. '*' is not the easiest string to
conduct a search on, if it's not referred to as an 'asterisk' somewhere on
the text. 

Thanks, Duncan!
Rodrigo Daunaravicius