Why is "unpacking" of tuples only allowed when there's 1 tupple ?

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Dnia 15-08-2009 o 22:50:39 Stef Mientki <stef.mientki at gmail.com>  
napisał(a):

> hello,
>
> I'm not sure if  "unpacking" is the right term
> but if I have a tuple of 2 arrays,
> I can either call a function with:
>
>           Space_State = tf2ss ( filt[0], filt[1] )
>
> or with
>           Space_State = tf2ss ( *filt )
>
> Now if I've to call a function with more parameters,
> why can't I use (Polynome is again a tuple of 2 arrays) :
> (which already gives an error in the IDE)
>
>           Respons = signal.lfilter ( *Polynome, Signal )
>
> and thus I've to use:
>
>           Respons = signal.lfilter ( Polynome[0], Polynome[1], Signal )

The content of that tuple or list (filt/Polynome here) doesn't matter.
Simply, when calling function, you can't put positional (non-keyword)
argument after *something.

  >>> def nic(*args, **kwargs): pass
  ...
  >>> nic(*[1,2,3], 4)
    File "<stdin>", line 1
  SyntaxError: only named arguments may follow *expression


That'd be ok:

  Respons = signal.lfilter(*Polynome, sig=Signal)  # if this method can
                                                   # receive argument
                                                   # 'sig' after more
                                                   # than len(Polynome)
                                                   # of arguments

-- 
Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>