Understanding def foo(*args)

[Ben Finney]

"Rob Richardson" <Rob.Richardson at rad-con.com> writes:

> My thanks both to the original poster and to JM for an excellent answer.
> I saw this syntax for the first time recently, and I've been curious
> about it too.

Would it be correct of me to assume that you have not worked through the
entire Python tutorial <URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/> to get a
thorough grounding in Python basics like this?

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Ben Finney