simple question on optional parameters

[Fredrik Lundh]

scooterm at hotmail.com wrote:

> I am using a toolkit that has a SetFaveNumbers() method. the method
> accepts any number of comma-separated numbers.

any number of arguments, that is.

> the following are all valid examples:
>
> FooToolkit.SetFaveNumbers(1,3,5)
> FooToolkit.SetFaveNumbers(2,4,6,8,10)
> FooToolkit.SetFaveNumbers(1)
>
> I do not know how this method is implemented, but I would like to be
> able to call the method using a single variable:
>
> MyFaveNumbers = []
> MyFaveNumbers.append(2)
> MyFaveNumbers.append(4)
>
> FooToolkit.SetFaveNumbers(MyFaveNumbers)

try:

    FooToolkit.SetFaveNumbers(*MyFaveNumbers)

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