[Tutor] Why use apply()?

[Bernard Lebel]

All right, thank you.


Bernard



On 5/12/05, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>  At 02:17 PM 5/12/2005, Bernard Lebel wrote:
>  
> Just a generic question: why one would use apply()?
> 
>  In Learning Python, on page 357, there is an example of generating an
>  instance using apply():
> 
>  class A:
>        def __init__( self, number ):
>               self.number = number
> 
>  a = apply( A, 3 )
>  What is the benefit of doing this over simply creating an instance "the
> usual way":
>  a = A( 3 )
>  No benefit. See 2.2 Non-essential Built-in Functions in the Python Library
> Reference. 'Use of apply() is not necessary since the ``extended call
> syntax,'' as used in the last example, is completely equivalent." 
>  
> 
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