forwarding *arg parameter

[Steven D'Aprano]

Re: forwarding *arg parameter

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:03:55 +0000, Tuomas wrote:

If you read the whole chain you find out what we were talking of.

I had already read the whole thread, and I've read it again in case I
missed something the first time, and I still have no idea why you think
you need to do this. You explain *what* you want to do, but not *why* you
want to do it.


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Steven.

[Tuomas]

Re: forwarding *arg parameter

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:03:55 +0000, Tuomas wrote:
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>>If you read the whole chain you find out what we were talking of.

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I had already read the whole thread, and I've read it again in case I
missed something the first time, and I still have no idea why you think
you need to do this. You explain *what* you want to do, but not *why* you
want to do it.

Redirecting a funtion parameter to an other function is a quite common
situation in programming. Here the question was forwarding *args
parameter. Have you ever tried this and found the difference in cases:

def f(*args):
x = g(args) # how g sees arguments in this case
x = g(*args) # and how it sees them in this case

I am happy with what Dennis Lee Bieber wrote in the second latest node
in this chain. So luckily my "flattern" is not needed because the
problem I had can be solved in the calling function.

TV