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From: Zheng Li <dllizheng@gmail.com>
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Subject: question about function pointer
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0900
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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