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Title: Tutorial doesn't cover * and ** function calls
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Components: Documentation Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: accepted
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Assigned To: rhettinger Nosy List: brett.cannon, georg.brandl, pterk, rhettinger
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Created on 2005-08-17 05:10 by brett.cannon, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg26067 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-08-17 05:10 
While the tutorial, in the section discussing function
definitions, covers * and ** arguments, there is no
aparent coverage of using them in a function call
(e.g., ``open(*["file", "r"])``).
msg26068 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-08-26 08:51 
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That should be fixed.
Do you have a patch?
msg26069 - (view) Author: Peter van Kampen (pterk) Date: 2005-10-17 11:07 
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I believe f(*seq) is covered in section 4.7.4 of the
tutorial?
(http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION006740000000000000000)

I've commited a patch to also include an example for
f(**dict). See:
 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1328566&group_id=5470&atid=305470
msg26070 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-11-22 19:51 
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Committed patch by pterk.
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