os.path.join and lists

Steven D. Majewski sdm7g at Virginia.EDU
Wed Oct 17 18:36:17 EDT 2001


On 17 Oct 2001, Uwe Schmitt wrote:

> Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> 
> | how about
> 
> |     bar = [ "fred", "barney", "froo" ]
> |     baz = bar + [ "bob" ]
> |     foo = os.path.join(*baz)
> 
> hi, whats the meaning of "*baz" ?? i've never seen this before....

[1] Another way of spelling 'apply' since 2.0.

[2] The inverse of "def spam( *args ):" 

See section 9.1 of "What's new in python 2.0" :
<http://www.amk.ca/python/2.0/#SECTION0001010000000000000000>


-- Steve Majewski






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