Peter Hansen wrote: > Francois De Serres wrote: > >> *args is documented in the Tutorial. I reckon **kwargs represents a >> dictionary of arguments. But I don't quite get the semantics of **x. >> Undefined length tuple of undefined length tuples? Are there other >> practical use cases for ** (common enough please, I wish I was, but >> I'm not a scientist). > > Where did you get "tuples of tuples" for **x ?
I would guess it is confusion from languages where unary * means dereference and ** means double dereference. To the OP: I'm glad you have been reading the tutorial. If you have further questions the reference manual is a good place to look: http://docs.python.org/ref/function.html Just as you can use a name other than self as the first argument to an unbound method, you can call your *args and **kwargs *x and **y instead, but they will still act just like *args and **kwargs. The stars are magic, not the names. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
