I noticed that the ** operator is used as the power operator, however I've seen it used when passing variables into a function. For example, I was researching a way to combine dictionaries. I found that if you do this:
a = {"t1":"a", "t2":"b"} b = {"t3":"c"} dict( a, **b ) This combines the two dictionaries. However, I have no idea what the ** operator is here. I know that when you specify ** as a parameter in a function definition, it represents a dictionary of parameters passed in. However, in this example it is NOT being used in a function definition. It is being used when passing variables into a function. Can someone explain what this means? I looked in the documentation but I couldn't find anything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list