[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following program does not work if you uncomment #lis = > ["xmms2"] + list(args) > > Evidently Python is opting for the nullary constructor list() as > opposed to the other one which takes a sequence. But no newcomer would > know this. And the Python docs dont give a good example of dealing with > taking a sequence of args and converting it to a list.
Evidently you overlooked having defined a list() in global scope yourself which takes no arguments. > I must've spent 40 minutes looking through my ora books, googling and > irc'ing in vane on this. > > import subprocess > > def xmms2(*args): > #lis = ["xmms2"] + list(args) > lis = ["xmms2"] + [a for a in args] > output = subprocess.Popen(lis, > stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] > return output.splitlines() > > def list(): ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is called by list(args) above, and the call fails. If you want to avoid such clashes, don't name your functions list, dict, int, str etc. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
