JonathanB wrote: > Ok, this is probably definitely a newbie question, but I have looked > all over the Python library reference material and tutorials which I > can find online and I cannot find a clear definition of what these are > and more importantly how to use them. From what I can tell from their > use in the examples I've seen, they are for passing a variable number > of arguments to a function (which I need to do in a program I am > working on). But how do you use them? Is there a fixed order in which > the arguments within *arg or **kwarg should be passed or will be > called within a function? I realize this probably involves a long- > winded answer to a very simple and common programming problem, so if > someone has a link to TFM, I'll gladly go RTFM. I just can't find it.
That's because it's in the language reference, not in the library reference. http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list