I love this group :-)
On Nov 9, 7:15 am, "Yarko T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually it has to do with what the helper function DIV expects / does with
> it's arguments...
> *arg expands a list, e.g. [a,b,c] and passes as 3 args; that is, it unpacks
> the list object;
>
> Since python functions can also take keyword arguments (arguments whose
> position doesn't matter, and which a function definition may give a default
> value), then this:
>
> **kwarg expands dictionaries (think of them as associative arrays) into
> keywork argument pairs.
>
> A good way to read the '*list is "expand the list", and **dict as "expand
> the dictionary pairs (that is, the keyword:value pairs).
>
> See more here:
>
> http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/KeywordArguments.htmlhttp://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/UnpackingArgumentLists.htmlhttp://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/Dictionaries.html
>
> Hope that is helpful.
>
> Yarko
>
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 9, 7:19 am, billf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Many thanks. As you can see I'm still missing some Python basics. I
> > > wonder sometimes that any of my code works :-)
>
> > I'm fairly new to Python myself, but my understanding is that this use
> > of the asterisk (*) has to do with how the web2py function DIV was
> > implemented.
>
> > See this section of the tutorial for details:
> >http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/tut/node6.html#SECTION006720000000000...
>
> > --Jonathan
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