Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:25:40 +1300 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <9kls47Fa7uU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4EE54272.8000005@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1fHL0QCeZDClhFPFT6AyeACpi0yJIEIAN/ajB3+AXmd3+PksXB Cancel-Lock: sha1:TjQGQykl+GCauW0/MAsjf/ilEbo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:17021 For what it's worth, googling for "python asterisk" gives this as the very first result: http://www.technovelty.org/code/python/asterisk.html which tells you exactly what you're probably wanting to know if you ask that. To check that this phenomemon isn't restricted to asterisks in particular, I also tried "python plus equals" and got http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2347265/what-does-plus-equals-do-in-python which is also a pretty good result. So the rule of thumb seems to be: if you're trying to google for punctuation, try spelling it out. -- Greg