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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