From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T03:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Expanding an array to function args

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:23:23AM +0900, Travis Whitton wrote:
> args = [1,2]
> sum(args) # need a way to expand args to be arguments a and b.
> 
> I fully understand that an array is a single object and that's why
> the above code would fail(missing second argument), but I'm wondering
> if there's a simple way to achieve what I'm looking for.

Yes there is, placing a * ahead of the array expands the arguments,
sum(*args) 

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