* in Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

placid wrote:

> Can someone tell me what * in the following code means/does a Google
> search didnt turn up anything as i dont know what the * is called

see sections 4.7.2 and 4.7.3 in the tutorial:

     http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION006740000000000000000

for more details, see the description of the "def" statement in the 
language reference.

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