function that accepts any amount of arguments?

[Steve Holden]

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)

regards
  Steve
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