Unzip the list and quit at the same time

Question

I have a long list of bites that need to be passed in integers to a function. I am currently doing the following:

my_function(int(list[0]), int(list[1]), int(list[2]), int(list[3])...)

But I know that I can make a much shorter function call by unpacking the list:

my_function(*list)

I was wondering if there is a way to combine int()

casting with an unboxing list *

, something like this:

my_function(*int(list))  #Doesn't work

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BloonsTowerDefence 04 Feb 13 at 16:11

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- this is the answer:

map(int, my_list)

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Jakub M. 04 Feb 13 at 16:12

Thorsten kranz · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-04T16:12:53+0000

Use a built-in method map

like

my_function(*map(int, list))

Alternatively, try using a list:

my_function(*[int(x) for x in list])

BTW:

Please do not use list

as a name for a local variable, this will hide the built-in method list

.

Typically used to add underscores to variable names that would otherwise hide built-in methods / keyword conflicts.