On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:01:27 +0200, Marco Wahl wrote: > Hi, > > I want to give a tuple to a function where the function > expects the respective tuple-size number of arguments. > > The following session illustrates what I want to do and > the respective failure. > > Python 2.4.1 (#7, Aug 3 2005, 14:55:58) > [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> def foo(a, b): print a, b > ... > >>> t = (1, 2) > >>> def foo(a, b): print 'a == %s, b == %s' % (str(a), str(b)) > ... > >>> foo(1, 2) > a == 1, b == 2 > >>> foo(t) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: foo() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Easy: foo(*t) -- Steve. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list