Oddity with function default arguments
Heiko Wundram
heikowu at ceosg.de
Sat Jun 12 11:06:58 EDT 2004
Am Samstag, 12. Juni 2004 09:05 schrieb Sheila King:
> Why isn't the default value for a printing out when I include list
> arguments?
You don't include list arguments. You just put positional arguments into a
function call, and of course a positional argument at the position of the
argument which has a default declared gets inserted there, that's why you
don't see the A when you pass more than two arguments.
All remaining positional arguments (once the named positional arguments have
been filled) get put into the list *mylist, which is commonly called *args
(it's not a list, btw., it's a tuple), which in your case are all arguments
behind the third.
Hope this makes this somewhat clearer...
Heiko.
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