On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 10/09/2010 17:37, cool-RR wrote: >> >> I noticed that it's impossible to call a Python function with two >> starred argument lists, like this: `f(*my_list, *my_other_list)`. I >> mean, if someone wants to feed two lists of arguments into a function, >> why not? >> >> I understand why you can't have two stars in a function definition; But >> why can't you have two (or more) stars in a function call? >> > Would there be any advantage over `f(*(my_list + my_other_list))`?
That fails if my_list and my_other_list are different types, whereas the *args syntax happily accepts any iterable object. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
