another newbie question: why should you use "*args" ?

[Jeffrey Froman]

stef wrote:

>> And one note more. Just to be more pythonic you shouldn't use form
>> range(len(blabla)). Instead use:
>>
>> for i in list:
>> ....blabla...
>>
>>
> I would love that,
> but please tell me how (I need an integer counter for something else too):

for index, item in enumerate(args):
    ...


Jeffrey