On Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:11:21 UTC+10, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > Hi > > I want to allow as many lists as needed to be passed into a function. > But how can I determine how many lists have been passed in? > > I expected this to return 3 but it only returned 1. > > matrix1 = [[1, -2], [-3, 4],] > matrix2 = [[2, -1], [0, -1]] > matrix3 = [[2, -1], [0, -1]] > # print(add(matrix1, matrix2)) > > def add(*matrix): > print(len(locals())) > > add(matrix1,matrix2,matrix3) > > Cheers > > Sayth
Tried creating a list of the arguments, however I am creating too many positional arguments. matrix1 = [[1, -2], [-3, 4],] matrix2 = [[2, -1], [0, -1]] matrix3 = [[2, -1], [0, -1]] matrix = [] def add_many(a = list(*matrix)): for num in a: for i in range(len(matrix[num])): for j in range(len(matrix[num])): print(matrix[num][i][j] + matrix[num][i][j]) add_many(matrix1,matrix2) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list