What is the meaning of the astarisk in Python

[Bob Gailer]

At 06:13 PM 9/20/2003, John Roth wrote:


>"John Dean" <john at rygannon.com> wrote in message
>news:3f6ce54f$0$10962$fa0fcedb at lovejoy.zen.co.uk...
> > Hi
> > Below is a line taken from Andy Dustman's MySQLdb module:
> > def Connect(*args, **kwargs):
> >
> > I would be grateful if somebody explain the meaning of the astarisks,
>since
> > I was under the impression that pointers are not used in Python and the
> > above look very must like pointers to me
>
>One asterisk creates a list of all positional arguements,

Do you mean tuple?

>two asterisks creates a dictionary of all keyword arguements.
>"All" means "not otherwise represented in the parameter list."

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
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