Getting sorting order

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
> >>>> master,slave1,slave2=zip(*x)
> 
>  What does the asterisk do here?
> 
>  Thanks
>  ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Instead of passing a single argument x to zip() you can think of it
unpacking the list x and passing len(x) arguments to zip.

So if x = [1,2,3,4]

zip(*x) == zip(1,2,3,4)

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