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Juliana Demarque
14,502 Points*args, packing and slices?
In Python Collections, Tuples section, there's a "Packing" challenge as follows:
Let's play with the *args pattern.
Create a function named multiply that takes any number of arguments. Return the product (multiplied value) of all of the supplied arguments. The type of argument shouldn't matter.
Slices might come in handy for this one.
I solved it by using a for loop and then multiplying each value inside the tuple, no biggie, BUT I cannot figure out how I would fit slices into a solution.
Did anybody out there use slices? How would one go about it? Cheers!
1 Answer
Steven Parker
243,318 PointsYou probably solved it like I did.
I started with a product of 1, and then multiplied by each argument.
But you could do it by starting with the first argument and multiplying by each of the others. You could use a slice to get the "others".
Juliana Demarque
14,502 PointsJuliana Demarque
14,502 PointsI started with the first argument and went from there. I didn't want to post my code so others won't be spoiled by it. And that's not the point really. I just want to know how would slices fit into this.
You can't mutiply tuple item by tuple item like:
nums[0:1] * nums[1:2], and if you multiply an int by a tuple the result is not what we are expecting in this exercise.Would the slice be used for looping the items inside de tuple?
Steven Parker
243,318 PointsSteven Parker
243,318 PointsRight, so I'm guessing you created a loop using a range, and then indexed into the list? But using the slice you could do something like this:
for val in nums[1:]: