On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Mark Larsen <larsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand what '*' and '**' mean. Could somebody let me know?
>
> This is a python thing. '*' means that any number of arguments can be
> passed as a tuple.
>
> For instance, I have function:
>
> def add(a,b):
> return a+b
>
> I could call this with a tuple argument:
>
> var = (4,5)
> add(*var)
>
> '**' means any number of keyword arguments (dict) could be passed:
>
> def add(a=1,b=1):
> return a+b
>
> I could call this with keywords by:
>
> var = {'a': 4, 'b':5}
> add(**var)
Are '*' and '**' described somewhere in python's documentation? Would
you please let me know where they are? Thank you!
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