Re: overloading *something

James Stroud wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> How does one make an arbitrary class (e.g. class myclass(object)) behave like
> a list in method calls with the "*something" operator? What I mean is:
>
> myobj = myclass()
>
> doit(*myobj)
>
> I've looked at getitem, getslice, and iter. What is it if not one of these?
>
> And, how about the "**something" operator?

Avoiding magic at the expense of terseness, I would do something like
the following:

class myclass(object):
def totuple(self):
...
def todict(self):
...

myargs = myclass()
mykwds = myclass()

doit(*myargs.totuple(), **mykwds.todict())

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