Re: another newbie question: why should you use "*args" ?

In <4b4a3$45c0b94c$83aef404$20934@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, stef wrote:

Eugene Antimirov wrote:

And one note more. Just to be more pythonic you shouldn't use form
range(len(blabla)). Instead use:

for i in list:
....blabla...


I would love that,
but please tell me how (I need an integer counter for something else too):

def chunk_plot(*args):
if len(args) == 1: list = args[0]
else: list = args

color = ['g','r','b','y','m']
plot ( list[0], color[0])
hold (True)
for i in range ( 1, len(list) ):
plot ( list[i], color[i] )

No need for the counter here.

for args in zip(list[1:], color[1:]):
plot(*args)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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