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diff Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @ 20909:669eddf470ba legacy-trunk
apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does
not affect the API. Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to. Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> |
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| date | Wed, 07 Nov 2001 06:22:25 +0000 |
| parents | 272336648d1f |
| children | 55a060f4173f |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex Wed Nov 07 04:42:04 2001 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex Wed Nov 07 06:22:25 2001 +0000 @@ -65,15 +65,16 @@ \begin{funcdesc}{apply}{function, args\optional{, keywords}} The \var{function} argument must be a callable object (a user-defined or built-in function or method, or a class object) and - the \var{args} argument must be a sequence (if it is not a tuple, - the sequence is first converted to a tuple). The \var{function} is + the \var{args} argument must be a sequence. The \var{function} is called with \var{args} as the argument list; the number of arguments - is the the length of the tuple. (This is different from just - calling \code{\var{func}(\var{args})}, since in that case there is - always exactly one argument.) + is the the length of the tuple. If the optional \var{keywords} argument is present, it must be a dictionary whose keys are strings. It specifies keyword arguments to be added to the end of the the argument list. + Calling \function{apply()} is different from just calling + \code{\var{func}(\var{args})}, since in that case there is always + exactly one argument. The use of \function{apply()} is equivalent + to \code{\var{function}(*\var{args}, **\var{keywords})}. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{buffer}{object\optional{, offset\optional{, size}}}
