Kent Johnson wrote:
> Stevie Broadfoot wrote:
>> actually scrap that, it works perfectly :) thank you very much for your
>> help. One last question, does this only work on lists? or will tuples
>> work too and what else?
>
> It will work on any sequence including lists and tuples.
More precisely, it will work with any iterable - even a dict (which
passes the *keys* of the dict) or a generator expression:
In [14]: def p(*args):
....: print args
....:
....:
In [15]: p(*dict(foo=1, bar=2))
('foo', 'bar')
In [16]: p(*(x*x for x in range(4)))
(0, 1, 4, 9)
Kent
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