parameter passing question

[Robert Brewer]

Micah wrote:
> Basically, I want to be able to call a function on a list of arguments
> without knowing the syntax of the function.  I guess a code 
> example would be
> best:
> 
> -------
> def foo(arg1, arg2):
>     # Do something with arg1 and arg2
> 
> def main():
>     f = foo
>     args = ["hello", "world"]
>     # Want to call foo("hello", "world") using variable f and 
> list args
> --------
> 
> So, what I'm trying to do is call f(args[0], args[1]).  
> However, I want to
> be able to do it with any length argument list.  Given any 
> function f and a
> list of arguments args, I want to be able to call f(args[0], 
> args[1], ...,
> args[n])

Use the variable-arg techniques described in:
http://docs.python.org/ref/function.html

def foo(*args):
    # Do something with arg[0], arg[1], ...

def main():
    f = foo
    args = ["hello", "world"]
    f(*args)


HTH,

Robert Brewer
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