[Tutor] Feeding a list into a function as arguments

[Stevie Broadfoot]

This is the best answer i've gotten so far... but its still not working...

what exactly does the star do?

the other solutions people provided do not suit my needs, my printout
function was just an example, what i need it for is more complicated.
I actually just need to feed the members of the list into the function...
and this is to be applied to different functions with different numbers of
arguments needed.

On 4/26/07, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> wrote:
>
> * Stevie Broadfoot <coollikestevie at gmail.com> [070426 09:56]:
> >    I have a list... say for example
> >
> >    list = ["hello", "there"]
> >
> >    and i have a function
> >
> >    def printout(firstword, secondword):
> >        print firstword
> >        print secondword
> >
> >    and i want to call
> >
> >    the function like this
> >
> >    printout(list)
> printout(*list)
>
> Andreas
>
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