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In Python, functions can take either no arguments, a single argument, or more than one argument. We can pass a string, integers, lists, tuples, a dictionary etc.
In Python, we can easily expand the list, tuple, dictionary as well as we can pass each element to the function as arguments by the addition of * to list or tuple and ** to dictionary while calling function.
Python lists are like any other Python object that we can pass into a function as a simple variable.
Use the * Operator in Python The * operator can unpack the given list into separate elements that can later be tackled as individual variables and passed as an argument to the function.
You can do this using the splat operator:
some_func(*params)
This causes the function to receive each list item as a separate parameter. There's a description here: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#unpacking-argument-lists
This has already been answered perfectly, but since I just came to this page and did not understand immediately I am just going to add a simple but complete example.
def some_func(a_char, a_float, a_something):
print a_char
params = ['a', 3.4, None]
some_func(*params)
>> a
Use an asterisk:
some_func(*params)
You want the argument unpacking operator *.
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