function that accepts any amount of arguments?

[Ken]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
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> globalrev wrote:
>> if i want a function that can take any amount of arguments how do i
>> do?
>>
>> lets say i want a function average that accepts any number of integers
>> and returns the average.
>
> Use a parameter of the form *args - the asterisk tells the interpreter to 
> collect positional arguments into a tuple. Untested:
>
> def mean(*x):
>     total = 0.0
>     for v in x:
>         total += v
>     return v/len(x)
>

 think you want total/len(x) in return statement


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