Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> writes: > Mark Wooding wrote: >> There's a full description of it in 5.4.3 in the Language Reference, but >> apparently not indexed. > > So I guess this means I can duck out of writing up a lecture on my own > understanding of Python's extended call syntax. Great. > > I think I grock the extended call syntax, and when the question came > up I was surprised not to be able to find where I learned it. Mark, > where exactly does one look to see this "full description"?
I typoed, sorry! I should have written 5.3.4: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/ref/calls.html The description of the fancy * and ** syntax starts with `If the syntax ``*expression'' appears in the function call...'. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list