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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:35:53 +0100
Subject: Re: how to separate a list into two lists?
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:21 PM, bud <only@fleshwound.org> wrote:
> Nice. :) =A0I forgot about zip, still learning Python myself.
>
> I'll have to check up on the *L - is that a reference?
> I

It expands the list into the arguments. It's the parallel to:

def func(*args):

which collapses the args into a list.

ChrisA