Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Xah Lee wrote: > oops... it is in the tutorial... sorry. If you're sorry, have you now *finally* gone and worked through the rest of tutorial, making a serious attempt to learn it? > This is not a rhetorical question, but where would one start to look > for it in the python ref? > > a language

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Xah Lee wrote: > oops... it is in the tutorial... sorry. > > though, where would one find it in the python reference? > i.e. the function def with variable/default parameters. > > This is not a rhetorical question, but where would one start to look > for it in the python ref? > a language is use

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-19 Thread Robert Kern
Xah Lee wrote: > oops... it is in the tutorial... sorry. > > though, where would one find it in the python reference? > i.e. the function def with variable/default parameters. > > This is not a rhetorical question, but where would one start to look > for it in the python ref? Oddly enough, http:

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-19 Thread Xah Lee
oops... it is in the tutorial... sorry. though, where would one find it in the python reference? i.e. the function def with variable/default parameters. This is not a rhetorical question, but where would one start to look for it in the python ref? a language is used by programers. Subroutine def

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-18 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- Paul Rubin wrote: > > "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > but are there other solutions? > > > > Xah > > Geez man, haven't you been around long enough to read the manual? > > def f(*a): return a > He's been around long enough to rewrite the manual. Metta, -ly y'rs, Ivan --

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-18 Thread John Machin
Xah Lee wrote: > how can i define a function with variable parameters? For example, > > f(a) would return [a] > f(a,b) would return [a,b] > f(a,b,...) would return [a,b,...] > > One solution is of course to make the argument as a list. i.e. > f([a,b,...]) > but are there other solutions? > >>> d

Re: functions with unlimeted variable arguments...

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Rubin
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but are there other solutions? > > Xah Geez man, haven't you been around long enough to read the manual? def f(*a): return a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list