[Tutor] question about *args and functions

[Wesley Brooks]

Greetings,

You could default it to None and check in your script to see if it has changed.
def some_function(req_var, req_var2, un_req_var=None):
   if un_req_var != None:
       dosomething
   else:
       dosomethingelse

Wesley Brooks.

On 26/01/07, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> lo there all,
>
> if i have a function that sometimes needs a value passed to it and sometimes
> not, is this where i use *args ?
>
> like this
>
> def some_function(req_var, req_var2, un_req_var):
>     do some stuff
>     return value
>
> how would i use this if sometimes i need to process un_req_var and sometimes
> not ?
>
> thanks
>
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