From 3d2be62d4b3fa6c43a6f11f38c10b2d7e736f6eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:05:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add synonyms for argument unpacking, for text-search purposes --- docs/language/api.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/language/api.rst b/docs/language/api.rst index ab0c041..115460e 100644 --- a/docs/language/api.rst +++ b/docs/language/api.rst @@ -1609,6 +1609,9 @@ the given conditional is ``False``. The following shows the expansion of this ma unpack-iterable, unpack-mapping ------------------------------- +(Also known as the splat operator, star operator, argument expansion, argument +explosion, argument gathering, and varargs, among others...) + ``unpack-iterable`` and ``unpack-mapping`` allow an iterable or mapping object (respectively) to provide positional or keywords arguments (respectively) to a function.