[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 25, 9:50 am, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Another question is how do I pass a tuple or list of all the >> aurgements of a function to the function. For example, I have all the >> arguments of a function in a tuple a=(1,2,3). Then I want to pass each >> item in the tuple to a function f so that I make a function call >> f(1,2,3). In perl it is a given, but in python, I haven't figured out >> a way to do it. (Maybe apply? but it is deprecated?) >> > I'm not sure about the first question, but as for the second, you > could do a few different things. You could just pass the tuple itself > into the function and have the tuple unpacked inside the function. > OR you could use the syntax invented for just that purpose ;).
>>> t = 1, 2, 3 >>> f(*t) bam! :) This works with dicts as well (for giving keyword arguments). There you prepend ** (two asterisk to your dict). Simple :) /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
