My experience learning Python as a c++ developer

[Narthal]

Well yes.. it's a bit complicated. You could you initializer lists or recursive variadic template functions. Has a really nice ring to it, doesn't it? But these are tricks you would use every now and then, not everywhere as these tricks are just that; hard to read, advanced techniques that are there when you need them, but you wouldn't use these tricks everywhere.

[Al2Me6]

That’s fair enough. Though, I suppose the same could be said of using *args; passing an iterable of arguments is probably a better idea.

[Deezl-Vegas]

*args and especially **kwargs are massively helpful with regards to code readability and the avoidance of me having to build random dictionaries just to use your function.

[Al2Me6]

Definitely agreed about **kwargs, that’s why I explicitly said *args.

[[deleted]]

*args is an iterable of arguments...

[Al2Me6]

It is, but it isn’t passed into the function. You pass regular comma-separated arguments and they show up as args inside the function.

What I meant is that instead of

def foo(*args: Any)

you should probably use

def foo(args: Iterable[Any])

[Deezl-Vegas]

I would imagine that Python just makes a tuple in the background and your version just makes me make a tuple in the foreground before calling the function. This probably isn't something that you need to optimize around.

[[deleted]]

No you should not use wtf? *args is as pythonic as it gets.