Robert Dailey wrote: > I noticed that the ** operator is used as the power operator, however > I've seen it used when passing variables into a function.
Others have already pointed out the relevant documentation. However, this ambiguous usage of * and ** is one thing I don't recall appearing on any of the "Python warts" lists - not that I spend too much time following such matters. I imagine that * was initially chosen in order to be similar to the way one may handle collections of values in C function signatures (ie. using pointers), and that ** was merely a convenient next step as opposed to being analogous to the "pointer to pointer" notation from C. The same symbols are used in different ways in C and C++, of course. It's interesting to see a fresh interpretation of the notation, though. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
