How would I pass an unknown number of parameters into a function? I have a function defined in the following way
def func(x, *p):
# do something with variable number of parameters (*p)
pass
I'm trying to pass in a list of values to use as parameters. I tried using a list and a tuple but the function always returns zero. Has anyone got any advice?
some_list = ["some", "values", "in", "a", "list", ]
func(*some_list)
This is equivalent to:
func("some", "values", "in", "a", "list")
The fixed x param might warrant a thought:
func(5, *some_list)
... is equivalent to:
func(5, "some", "values", "in", "a", "list")
If you don't specify value for x (5 in the example above), then first value of some_list will get passed to func as x param.
Pass the values as comma separated values
>>> def func(x, *p): # p is stored as tuple
... print "x =",x
... for i in p:
... print i
... return p
...
>>> print func(1,2,3,4) # x value 1, p takes the rest
x = 1
2
3
4
(2,3,4) # returns p as a tuple
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