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+2 A:

Point._make takes a tuple as its sole argument. Your map call is equivalent to [Point._make((3, 4)), Point._make((5, 6))].

Using a list comprehension makes this more obvious: [Point(*t) for t in [(3, 4), (5, 6)]] achieves the same effect.

Aaron Gallagher 2010-10-28 02:26:17

You can also use starmap from itertools - list(starmap(Point, [[1,2], [3, 4]]))

lazy1 2010-10-28 02:30:22

There's a dozen other ways to do it, but a list comprehension is the clearest in what it does exactly.

Aaron Gallagher 2010-10-28 02:34:26

Thanks, everyone. This really cleared up the issue for me.

Rick 2010-10-28 11:44:09

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