Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:51:00 GMT, Tuomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>>>
>>
>>I fylly agree with tis: "Typically, the responsibility should be on the
>>CALLER, not the CALLED..". I just don't know how to unpack *arg for
>>calling g. I can get the len(arg), but how to formulate an unpacked call
>>g(arg[0], arg[1], ..). Building a string for eval("g(arg[0], arg[1],
>>..)") seems glumsy to me.
>>
>
> Did you miss the example I gave? Using "*args" on the "def"
> essentially says "pack remaining arguments into one tuple". Using
> "*args" on a CALL says "UNPACK tuple into positional arguments"
>
> def f(*args): <<<< pack arguments into tuple
Thats it:
> x = g(*args) >>>> unpack args tuple when calling
Yesterday I tested something like this and got a syntax error. So I got
misunderstanding that "g(*args)" is'nt a proper syntax. Obviously my
test sentence had some other syntax error. Sorry.
TV
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