Is it possible to use a single data structure to pass into a function with multiple arguments? I'd like to do something like the following but it doesn't appear to work.
foo_bar = (123, 546)
def a(foo, bar):
print(foo)
print(bar)
Is it possible to do something like the following:
a(foo_bar)
instead of:
a(foo_bar[0], foo_bar[1])
What is the pythonic way of doing this?
What you want is:
a(*foo_bar)
See Unpacking Argument Lists in the tutorial for details… but there really isn't much more to it than this.
For completeness, the reference documentation is in Calls:
If the syntax
*expressionappears in the function call,expressionmust evaluate to an iterable. Elements from this iterable are treated as if they were additional positional arguments; if there are positional arguments x1, ..., xN, andexpressionevaluates to a sequence y1, ..., yM, this is equivalent to a call with M+N positional arguments x1, ..., xN, y1, ..., yM.
