HC Library and *attributes parameter

[Efrat Regev]

  Hello,

  I'm a really new (and quite bad) Python programmer. While trying to use
the HC HTML-Generating library, I couldn't figure out how to set a table's
width to some given width. Moreover, the constructors interface is

def __init__(self, object = None, align = None, border = None, cellspacing =
None, cellpaddding = None, *attributes)

    So, what does *attribute stand for (being a C++ programmer, it looks
like a pointer, probably not the case). Is it like the C++ ellipsis? If so,
how can
I use it?

  Thanks,

  Efrat