[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is this *lis operation called? I am having trouble finding any
reference to it in the python docs or the book learning python.
One might call this argument unpacking, but
Language Manual / Expressions / Primaries / Calls
simply calls it *expression syntax.
"If the syntax *expression appears in the function call, expression must
evaluate to a sequence. Elements from this sequence are treated as if
they were additional positional arguments; if there are positional
arguments x1,...,*xN* , and expression evaluates to a sequence
y1,...,*yM*, this is equivalent to a call with M+N positional arguments
x1,...,*xN*,*y1*,...,*yM*."
See Compound Statements / Function definitions for the mirror syntax in
definitions.
tjr
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