From dae2a8939df14692b59d66b13c587a0a4197700e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Heimes Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:55:37 +0000 Subject: Merged revisions 62350-62355,62358-62359,62364-62365,62370,62372-62375,62378-62379,62381 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r62350 | nick.coghlan | 2008-04-15 12:25:31 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Issue 2439: add pkgutils.get_data() as a convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API (contributed by Paul Moore) ........ r62351 | nick.coghlan | 2008-04-15 12:28:14 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Add test file missing from rev 62350 ........ r62352 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-15 13:58:46 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Add myself to Doc/ACKS.txt ........ r62353 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-15 15:10:07 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 6 lines Add *,**,@ to index, as suggested by http://farmdev.com/thoughts/24/what-does-the-def-star-variable-or-def-asterisk-parameter-syntax-do-in-python-/ The right entry type to use isn't clear; operator seems wrong, because *,**,@ aren't being used in expressions here. I put them as 'statement'; 'syntax' might be better. ........ r62354 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-15 15:10:41 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Typo fix ........ r62355 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-15 22:51:18 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 3 lines Fix for possible signed overflow: the behaviour of -LONG_MIN is undefined in ANSI C. ........ r62358 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-16 14:47:01 +0200 (Wed, 16 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Reformat to 80 columns prior to adding documentation. ........ r62359 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-16 14:57:43 +0200 (Wed, 16 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Add details about the return value for mmap.flush(). ........ r62364 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-04-17 12:48:31 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 1 line Issue 2648: Add leading zero to money format recipe in the docs. ........ r62365 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-17 14:39:45 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Be consistent in the use of read-only. ........ r62370 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-17 22:44:06 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 1 line Typo fixes ........ r62372 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 04:40:47 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line Use correct parameter name ........ r62373 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 18:53:09 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line #2654: fix typo ........ r62374 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 20:28:23 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 4 lines Remove personal note from Jim Roskind; it no longer applies, and the e-mail address is for a previous employer. Can we move the big long copyright statement into a sidebar or something? ........ r62375 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 20:39:55 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line Rewrite introductory section, and remove old section. (It was already commented-out, but why keep it?) ........ r62378 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-18 22:35:46 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line resolve issue 2014 ........ r62379 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-18 22:45:33 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Fix indentation in sysmodule.c ........ r62381 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-19 01:31:33 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines Some tests did not pass on repeated calls (regrtest -R::) Perform additional cleanup, mostly deleting from sys.modules, or clearing the warnings registry. ........ --- Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst') diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index 3d011d1031..4404ab239a 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined. Arbitrary Argument Lists ------------------------ +.. index:: + statement: * + Finally, the least frequently used option is to specify that a function can be called with an arbitrary number of arguments. These arguments will be wrapped up in a tuple. Before the variable number of arguments, zero or more normal @@ -508,6 +511,9 @@ or tuple:: >>> list(range(*args)) # call with arguments unpacked from a list [3, 4, 5] +.. index:: + statement: ** + In the same fashion, dictionaries can deliver keyword arguments with the ``**``\ -operator:: @@ -610,7 +616,7 @@ concise, *formatted*) in different styles; some are more readable than others. Making it easy for others to read your code is always a good idea, and adopting a nice coding style helps tremendously for that. -For Python, :pep:`8` has emerged as the style guide that most projects adher to; +For Python, :pep:`8` has emerged as the style guide that most projects adhere to; it promotes a very readable and eye-pleasing coding style. Every Python developer should read it at some point; here are the most important points extracted for you: -- cgit v1.2.1