Importing an output from another function

James Stroud jstroud at ucla.edu
Fri Mar 17 17:18:00 EST 2006


John Salerno wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
> 
>> Try this (I think its called "argument expansion", but I really don't 
>> know what its called, so I can't point you to docs):
>>
>> def Func1():
>>     choice = ('A', 'B', 'C')
>>     output = random.choice(choice)
>>     output2 = random.choice(choice)
>>     return output, output2
>>
>> def Func2(*items):
>>     print items
>>
>> output = Func1()
>> Func2(*output1)
> 
> 
> I was wondering about '*items' when I wrote my response. I left out the 
> asterisk in my version and it still seems to work. Is it necessary?

Yours is better, after I wrote mine, I realized the asterisk was 
unnecessary for this particular example, except that it makes Func2 more 
general.

James

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