Why does passing tuple as arg WITHOUT scattering work?
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Oct 20 18:26:32 EDT 2009
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm just learning Python from scratch, on my own. Apologies if this
> question is too newbie... Or perhaps answered in some FAQ (where?).
>
> Here's my original code for simple starter program, using the
> ActivePython implementation in Windows XP Prof, Python version is 2.6:
>
>
> <code>
> import Tkinter
>
> window = Tkinter.Tk()
> window.title( "A fixed size ellipse..." )
> window.geometry( "350x200" ) # Client area size, not window
> size.
> window.resizable( width = 0, height = 0 )
>
> canvas = Tkinter.Canvas( window, bg = "white" )
> bbox = 2, 2, 347, 197 # Pixel coors left, top, right,
> bottom
> canvas.create_oval( bbox, fill = "PeachPuff" )
> canvas.pack() # Fill the entire client area,
> please.
>
> window.mainloop() # Process events until window is
> closed.
> </code>
>
>
> It worked nicely, and I thought this code was fairly perfect until I
> started studying the language reference.
>
> It seems that formally correct code should apply the scatter operator to
> the tuple, like this:
>
>
> canvas.create_oval( *bbox, fill = "PeachPuff" )
>
>
> And this /also/ works nicely!
>
> I think it's this latter that is correct, and that the former just
> worked by accident, due to e.g. the way that some C function parses
> arguments or such?
>
> But I'm unable to figure it out, so, what's correct (both? one?), and
> assuming it's the latter that's correct, would the first version still
> work in practice regardless of Python / Tkinter implementation?
>
I've looked at the source in Tkinter.py. The positional arguments are
collected and then flattened into a tuple (tuples and lists are
'scattered').
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