My argument comes down to; we use M so we don't have to type
[1,3,5,7], I realize that this is in part because we might not no what
M will be.
This is starting to sound like double talk on my part, I have only
been programing in python for 2 weeks so my credibility is only that
of an outside that MAY have a reasonable way of thinking of this or at
least a feature I would like.
The problem (as pointed out elsewhere on the list), an argument
to a function may have zero or more names at the time the
function is called. There *is* *no* canonical name for an
object. If you want to name an object, pass it as a
function-argument. Or use its ID. However, since Python has the
flexibility to handle any of the following:
a = [1,2,3]
b = [5,6,7]
c = b
foo([8,9,10])
foo(a)
foo(b)
foo(c)
While for the b/c name conflict (both refer to the same object),
might be hackable by sniffing the call-stack, the anonymous
[8,9,10] argument has *no* name, and thus your function is stuck.
by the way what is "**kwargs" I can't find any documentation on this?
There's a quick example here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-June/443934.html
-tkc
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