question: parameters for create_polygon() method

Greg Krohn greg at invalid.invalid
Wed May 5 01:18:01 EDT 2004


SeeBelow at SeeBelow.Nut wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>create_polygon(*list_of_points)
>>-Andrew.

> Thanks Andrew, but I don't understand it.  What's that * thing?
> Is there a * operator that converts a list of tuples into one big tuple?
> 
> Mitchell Timin

It treats the list (i.e. list_of_points) as if each element was passed 
as an argument to the function. In other words:

   l = [1, 2, 3]
   create_polygon(*l)

is the same as

   create_polygon(1, 2, 3)


greg



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