>> Question: Is there an unpacking mechanism for cases in which I don't >> know--and don't need to know--how many elements I get, or an >> argument passing mechanism that is the inverse of the tuplifier (*args)? > > No. > > It looks a little bit as if you aren't aware of the symetry behind the * > and **-argument-passing schemes. I suggest reading up on them.
Sorry - I was somewhat unconcentrated and missed the last part of the sentence. So it is No "generalized", yes, the inverse of *args is foo(*args) Sorry for the confusion. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
