To Eric Walker, John Fouhy, and Eric Brunson: Thanks very much. I think I'm beginning to get it. At least I was able to write a couple of functions that do what I wanted:
========================= def f(n,m,*args): x = n*m for arg in args: product = arg*x x = product print product numbers = 10, 6, 7 f(3,4,*numbers) # ------------------------------------------ def g(*args): n = 0 for arg in args: sum = n + arg n = sum print sum numbers = 10, 6, 7, 5, 100 g(*numbers) ============================ They give me 5040 and 128, respectively. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor