converting from perl: variable sized unpack

Tim Hammerquist tim at vegeta.ath.cx
Sun Jul 15 21:03:29 EDT 2001


Me parece que Quinn Dunkan <quinn at yak.ugcs.caltech.edu> dijo:
> Ruby allows * notation:
> 
> a, b, *c = sequence # `c' gets the rest of the sequence
> 
> which is cute, but I don't like it.  Just another random "convenient" little
> trick to remember.  It's not half as useful as the 1.6 * apply trick.  Let's
> go easy on the syntax gimmicks.

I'm relatively new to Python. What's the '1.6 * apply' trick?

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