Enumming

[John W. Baxter]

In article <m3zom6uwo6.fsf at greebo.nodomain.de>, Bernhard Herzog 
<herzog at online.de> wrote:

> Others have answered your question and I don't have to add anyting to
> that, so I'll pick the remaining nit:
> 
> "Larry Whitley" <ldw at us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > myList = []
> > for i in range( 10 ):
> >     myList.append( functionA(), funcationB(), functionC(), functionD(),
> > functionE() )
> 
> From Python 1.6 on the list's append method will only accept exactly one
> argument, so this will produce a TypeError. 
> 
> That it works now, despite being undocument, is a leftover from very
> early Python which had a different way to call C-methods.

Yes, but making the arguments into a single tuple will work now (at 
least where "now" is Python 1.5.2) and in Python 1.6 (+):

myList.append( (functionA(), funcationB(), functionC(), functionD(), 
functionE()) )

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com