[Tutor] *args consumption

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On 3/12/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
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> Danny has given some reasons why this is not useful standard behaviour.
> If this is a behaviour you need for many functions, you could create a
> decorator that provides it so you don't have to include the same
> boilerplate in each function.
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> Decorators are functions that accept a function as an argument and
> return a new function as a result. Here is a decorator that will unpack
> a tuple argument:



Thanks for a great example of what decorators are good for.

Anna
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