Request for feedback on my first Python program

[Scott Meyers]

On 30 May 2003 03:50:17 -0700, Giles Brown wrote:
> 2) I'm using the "*args" calling technique to ensure that an error is reported
> if main is called with the wrong number of arguments.  It would print usage,
> but for quick and dirty scripts it highlights wrong argument count well enough.

Can you tell me where I can read more about this?  I've tried looking it
up, but I didn't find anything, probably because all I have to
syntactically go on is the asterisk...

Thanks,

Scott