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Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code?

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Subject Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code?
Date Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:28:03 +1100
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Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 9:26:47 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Can you show example code that you would expect, and specifically what about
> > the actual code doesn't match what you expect?
>
> Excuse me for the incomplete info previously. 
> If I call it with 
> a = f(3) 
> the result is 12.

Can you show a *very* simple example of the ‘f’ you're talking about?
Contrive a new one, make it behave the same way while keeping it very
short, and once you have that, put that code in your message.

With an actual function to examine it will be much easier to know where
the confusion lies.

-- 
 \       “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses |
  `\    over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and |
_o__)                    its speaker a raving lunatic.” —Dresden James |
Ben Finney

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Is '*args' useful in this example code? Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 18:16 -0800
  Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-05 13:26 +1100
    Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 18:34 -0800
      Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-05 14:28 +1100
        Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 05:04 -0800
  Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Arif Khokar <akhokar1234@wvu.edu> - 2016-01-04 22:29 -0500
  Re: Is '*args' useful in this example code? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2016-01-05 12:51 +0100

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