Importing an output from another function

[John Salerno]

James Stroud wrote:

> Try this (I think its called "argument expansion", but I really don't 
> know what its called, so I can't point you to docs):
> 
> def Func1():
>     choice = ('A', 'B', 'C')
>     output = random.choice(choice)
>     output2 = random.choice(choice)
>     return output, output2
> 
> def Func2(*items):
>     print items
> 
> output = Func1()
> Func2(*output1)

I was wondering about '*items' when I wrote my response. I left out the 
asterisk in my version and it still seems to work. Is it necessary?