Tim Hammerquist tim at vegeta.ath.cx
Sun Jul 15 21:03:29 EDT 2001

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Me parece que Quinn Dunkan <quinn at yak.ugcs.caltech.edu> dijo:
> Ruby allows * notation:
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> a, b, *c = sequence # `c' gets the rest of the sequence
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> which is cute, but I don't like it.  Just another random "convenient" little
> trick to remember.  It's not half as useful as the 1.6 * apply trick.  Let's
> go easy on the syntax gimmicks.

I'm relatively new to Python. What's the '1.6 * apply' trick?

-- 
Little one, I would like to see anyone -- prophet, king or
god -- persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.
    -- Orange Cat, The Sandman

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