Paul Rubin wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Think of a tuple as an ordered collection. A given element's ordinal >> position indicates its semantics (meaning, significance), and >> generally it won't make sense to iterate over the elements of a tuple >> (though naturally that doesn't stop people, and neither does the >> interpreter). > > def f(*a): ... > > is a fundamental language feature and really only makes sense in > the context of iterating over tuples.
That's true, but given that individual arguments are bound to names in the local namespace I'd have to argue (if I wanted to argue at all) that the choice of a tuple over a list was pretty arbitrary, and that it would actually be "more Pythonic" to allow modification of the argument list in the same way as sys.argv is mutable. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
