Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > How does one make an arbitrary class (e.g. class myclass(object)) behave > > like a list in method calls with the "*something" operator? What I mean > > is: > > You need to base myclass on a list if I understand your question.
Not necessary, all you need is __iter__: >>> def f(*a): print a ... >>> class X(object): ... def __iter__(self): return iter(xrange(4)) ... >>> f(*X()) (0, 1, 2, 3) >>> > > I've looked at getitem, getslice, and iter. What is it if not one of these? Obviously James hadn't looked at __iter__ in the RIGHT way! > > And, how about the "**something" operator? > > > > James > > A dictionary would be pretty much the same except subclassed from a > dictionary of course. I believe this one is correct (but I have not checked in-depth!). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
