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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:54:35 -0600
From: Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu>
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On 12/17/2011 23:33, Evan Driscoll wrote:
> I do have one more thing to point out, which is that currently the
> Python vararg syntax is very difficult to Google for. In the first page=
s
> of the four searches matching "python (function)? (star | asterisk)",
> there was just one relevant hit on python.org which wasn't a bug report=
=2E
Though in the interest of full disclosure, and I should have said this
before, the first hit for all of those searches except "python star"
*is* relevant and reasonably helpful; just from someone's blog post
instead of "from the horse's mouth", so to speak.

Evan


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