"Kent Johnson" <ken...@tds.net> wrote
Is there any way to list the input arguments without listing them
inside
the function's parentheses?
No, because the function expects 3 arguments so you must pass it 3.
You can use *args to pass multiple arguments in a list. For example,
In [2]: values = [1, 2, 3]
In [3]: show(*values)
1 2 3
Thats true although I read the question as meaning can I pass in an
arbitrary list of arguments even though the function takes 3... The
follow-on question seemed to back up that understanding. But it
could mean what you took it for in which case clearly the answer
is yes and *chords would have worked.
I cobfess I don;t like the *args style where the function takes a
specified
number of params because I find it too easy to hide bugs by
inadvertantly
passing the wrong number of args. Explicit is better etc...
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