Edward K. Ream wrote: > 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? Neither > googling nor brief > checks of the 'What's new in Python' or the pep's has turned up this > information.
$ python1.5 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" File "<string>", line 1 print max(*(1, 2)) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax $ python2.0 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" 2 $ python2.1 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" 2 $ python2.2 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" 2 $ python2.3 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" 2 $ python2.4 -c "print max(*(1, 2))" 2 </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list