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question about function pointer

From	Zheng Li <dllizheng@gmail.com>
Subject	question about function pointer
Date	2012-02-17 16:53 +0900
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.5911.1329465188.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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def method1(a = None):
	print a

i can call it by
method1(*(), **{'a' : 1})

I am just curious why it works and how it works?
and what do *() and **{'a' : 1} mean?

when I type *() in python shell, error below happens

  File "<stdin>", line 1
    *()
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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