function that accepts any amount of arguments?

[Steve Holden]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>  Ken wrote:
>>> "Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
>>  [...]
>>>> 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
>>>
>>  Yes indeed, how glad I am I wrote "untested". I clearly wasn't pair 
>>  programming when I wrote this post ;-)
> 
> Posting to comp.lang.python is pair programming with the entire
> internet ;-)
> 
> 
+1 QOTW :)

regards
  Steve
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