Q: going from tuple to comma-separated list?

[Erik Max Francis]

Damian Menscher wrote:

> I've got a function that takes an arbitrary number of parameters.
> (This is the Gnuplot.plot() function.)  I don't know until runtime
> how many things I want to send to it.  So I thought I'd be clever
> and do it as
> plotdata = ()
> for i in range(stuff):
>         plotdata = plotdata + (function(i),)
> Gnuplot.plot(plotdata)
> 
> But the plot function is dying due to:
> TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation

If f is a function and args is a tuple of the arguments you want to send
it, try:

	apply(f, args)

or just

	f(*args)

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