[Tutor] timed functions? Timeouts?

[Alan Gauld]

"Kent Johnson" <kent37 at tds.net> wrote

>> Then I'm a little confused by the * and ** - they look just like 
>> the
>> pointer and pointer to a pointer in C++, but do they perform the 
>> same
>> function in python?
>
> No, these are not pointers, they allow passing arbitrary lists and
> dicts of arguments. I don't know of a good writeup of this syntax;

Soince you (the OP) seem to know some C the */** parameters
are somewhat similar to varargs in C. (as used in functions like
printf)

HTH,


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