Various documentation pages, e.g. http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/non-essential-built-in-funcs.html state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.
Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced?
That was in Python 2.0, see
http://www.python.org/2.0/new-python.html#SECTION0001010000000000000000
Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list