Edward K. Ream wrote:
> Various documentation pages, e.g.
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/non-essential-built-in-funcs.html
> state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.
>
> Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced? Neither
> googling nor brief
> checks of the 'What's new in Python' or the pep's has turned up this
> information.
$ python1.5 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
File "<string>", line 1
print max(*(1, 2))
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
$ python2.0 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.1 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.2 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.3 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.4 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
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