Passing an array/list into a Python function

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When you define your function using this syntax:

def someFunc(*args):
    for x in args
        print x

You’re telling it that you expect a variable number of arguments. If you want to pass in a List (Array from other languages) you’d do something like this:

def someFunc(myList = [], *args):
    for x in myList:
        print x

Then you can call it with this:

items = [1,2,3,4,5]

someFunc(items)

You need to define named arguments before variable arguments, and variable arguments before keyword arguments. You can also have this:

def someFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3, *args, **kwargs):
    for x in args
        print x

Which requires at least three arguments, and supports variable numbers of other arguments and keyword arguments.

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