Asterisk in Python

[sarmin kho]

Hi Pythoners...
 
I am definitely confused with the use of asterisk (*) sign in python...
I quoted the following code from 'python cookbook' text book page 223 about 'running functions in the future'...
 
it says:
def __init__(self,func, *param):
    bla bla bla...
 
then it says:
self.__result = func(*param):
 
it also says:
def Wrapper(self, func, param):
    bla bla bla...
 
my question is : what is the asterisk (*) sign for and what is the different between 'param' and ' *param ' ?? 
 
many thanks Pythoners...
 
regards...
sarmin
 
 


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