From time to time I spot an asterisk (*) used in the Python code
_outside_ the usual *args or **kwargs application.
E.g. here: http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
def transpose (m):
return zip(*m)
>>> transpose([[1,2,3], [4,5,6]])
[(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
What does *m mean in this example and how does it do the magic here?
There's a good writeup on args/kwargs at
http://www.megasolutions.net/python/-args-and---kwargs-78766.aspx
(looks like the content was gleaned from comp.lang.python and
credited)
-tkc
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