On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:10:41 -0700, TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > Well I did a search on "Python variable length arguments" and found a > hit that seems to explain the *fields parameter: > > When you declare an argment to start with '*', it takes the argument > list into an array.
No it doesn't. >>> def test(*args): ... import array ... assert type(args) is array.array, "Not an array" ... >>> test(1, 2, 3) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 3, in test AssertionError: Not an array -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list