[Tutor] Need to convert 1,987,087,234,456 to an int

[Eric Brunson]

Dick Moores wrote:
> At 06:58 PM 8/15/2007, John Fouhy wrote:
>   
>> You could do this:
>>
>>     
>>>>> def decomma(*t):
>>>>>           
>> ...  return int(''.join(str(i) for i in t))
>>     
>
> What's that asterisk doing in decomma(*t)? Where do I go in the docs 
> to look it up?
>
>   

It's the opposite of "def f( *args )"

It's easiest to show by example:

 >>> def f( *args ):
...     print args
...
 >>> f( 1 )
(1,)
 >>> f( 1, 2, 3 )
(1, 2, 3)
 >>> f( (1, 2, 3) )
((1, 2, 3),)
 >>> f( *(1, 2, 3) )
(1, 2, 3)

This is your brain on python.  Any questions?

:-)


> Thanks,
>
> Dick
>
>
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