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When was extended call syntax introduced?

Various documentation pages, e.g.
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/...-in-funcs.html
state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.

Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced?
Neither googling nor brief checks of the 'What's new in Python' or the pep's
has turned up this information. Thanks.

Edward
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Jul 18 '05 #1
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Edward K. Ream wrote:
Various documentation pages, e.g.
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/...-in-funcs.html
state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.

Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced?


That was in Python 2.0, see

http://www.python.org/2.0/new-python...00000000000000

Regards,
Martin
Jul 18 '05 #2
Edward K. Ream wrote:
Various documentation pages, e.g.
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/...-in-funcs.html
state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.

Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced?
Neither googling nor brief checks of the 'What's new in Python' or the pep's
has turned up this information. Thanks.

Edward
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It looks like the extended call syntax was added in Python 2.0. See
"What's New in Python 2.0, 9.1 Minor Langage Changes" at
http://www.amk.ca/python/2.0/new-python.html

Jim
Jul 18 '05 #3
Edward K. Ream wrote:
Various documentation pages, e.g.
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/...-in-funcs.html
state that the apply function has been deprecated since 2.3.

Can anyone tell me when extended call syntax was actually introduced? Neither googling nor brief
checks of the 'What's new in Python' or the pep's has turned up this information.


$ python1.5 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
File "<string>", line 1
print max(*(1, 2))
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
$ python2.0 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.1 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.2 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.3 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2
$ python2.4 -c "print max(*(1, 2))"
2

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Jul 18 '05 #4
> > That was in Python 2.0, see

Thanks very much, Martin.
Jul 18 '05 #5

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