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Python Functions, Packing, and Unpacking Packing and Unpacking Unpacking Challenge

Posted by Marvin Toussaint
Marvin Toussaint
792 Points

I'm not sure what to do here

Help please

unpacking.py 
def unpacker(args1, args2):
    val = args1 + args2
    return 

val = unpacker('Python', 'rocks!')

1 Answer

Peter O'Donovan
Peter O'Donovan
4,129 Points
Peter O'Donovan
Peter O'Donovan
4,129 Points

I think you might be getting confused between packing and unpacking - look back at the Python course on functions, packing and unpacking.

Packing is when you want arguments passed to a function to be "packed" as a tuple. This can be achieved using the convention *args as your function argument.

Unpacking is when you want the elements within some Python sequence to be assigned to individual variables.