Variable arguments to a Python function

[Ganesan R]

>>>>> "Mahboob" == Mahboob  <mahboob at bellsouth.net> writes:

> How can I pass variable number of arguments to a Python function and access
> them inside the function?

> In Perl, you could write

> sub all_of {
>     my $result = 1;
>     while ( @_) {
>         $result *= shift;
>        }
>     return result;
> }
> (From Mastering Algorithms with Perl, pg 569)
> You can compute the product of any number of variables with the above
> function.

Literal translation:

def all_of(*args):
    result = 1
    for i in args:
        result *= i
    return

*args gives you the rest of the (non-keyword) arguments to the function 
as a tuple. 

Ganesan

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