On 08/08/2012 08:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Is there a way in Python to pass arguments without listing each argument?
> For example, my program does the following:
>
> testData (z[0], z[1], z[2], z[3], z[4], z[5], z[6], z[7])
>
> Is there a clever way to pass arguments in a single statement knowing that
> each argument is a sequential index from a list?
> I cannot change the function definition.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
If a function is expecting exactly 8 arguments, and z is a list of
length 8, you can call the function like:
testData(*z)
if z is longer, then you'd need something like (untested)
testData(*z[:8])
The * basically turns a list into separate arguments, and these are then
applied to the formal parameters.
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