syntax question

[Rajarshi Guha]

Hi,
  I saw this code snippet in teh Google archives:

def V(*vals):
  return array(vals)

c = V(256,256)

And then c is a Numpy array.

I can see that the *vals takes in a tuple - is this orrect or are there any 
other significances of this sytnax?

TIA

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