Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > I was wondering how does Python > disambiguate that... anyone has any pointers on it?
That is easy to answer: py> parser.expr("f(*x)").totuple() (258, (326, (303, (304, (305, (306, (307, (309, (310, (311, (312, (313, (314, (315, (316, (317, (1, 'f')), (321, (7, '('), (329, (16, '*'), (303, (304, (305, (306, (307, (309, (310, (311, (312, (313, (314, (315, (316, (317, (1, 'x')))))))))))))))), (8, ')')))))))))))))))), (4, ''), (0, '')) py> symbol.arglist 329 So much for the "how", I don't know why it makes this choice; notice that this is the better choice, though: py> f((*x)) File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can use starred expression only as assignment target Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com