How do I let a function accept a variable number of lists:

[Alex Martelli]

"scott" <smarsh at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The problem is this line:
> x = stats.F_oneway(li[0], li[1])
>
> I've just set it to accept the first two lists.
> The docstring for lF_oneway includes:
> "Usage:   F_oneway(*lists)   where *lists is any number of lists, one
> per treatment group"
>
> Question:
> How do I automatically pass the correct number of lists to
> stats.F_oneway()?

That's exactly what the star-syntax does in the call, in
Python 2.


> If I could turn the list of lists into a series of lists i.e:
> li = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5,6]] --> li = [1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
> then I could presumably just pass li.

Right.  You call:
    x = stats.F_oneway(*li)
(note the asterisk) and that is just about what happens.


Alex