<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, you can say apply() is 'deprecated' now,
What is deprecated is the spelling, not the concept or functionality. As far as I know, apply(func, args) is exactly equivalent to func(*args). If the latter had been invented in the beginning and you had learned it as Python's spelling of the apply concept, you might never miss the 'apply' spelling. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list