placid wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone tell me what * in the following code means/does a Google > search didnt turn up anything as i dont know what the * is called > (related to Python and i dont think Python has pointers) > * is for variable number of positional arguments, ** is for variable keyword arguments. The syntax is symmetrical when defining functions and when calling them.
See http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html and http://docs.python.org/ref/function.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list