Unpacking With Asterisk Operators in Python

Great video, thanks! Question: Is it possible to unpack the iterable and, at the same time, apply a function to each of the unpacked elements? For example, I have a list of strings that have trailing whitespaces that I want removed. I was thinking of calling the strip() method on each element as the list is unpacked. I tried different ways but I was not successful, so I ended up using list comprehension. Is something like this possible with the unpacking operator?

Short but useful!

Thank you! This makes a little more sense now and my brain broke slightly.

This was a great video. Amazing explanation

I have good knowledge of python and am completely confused.

Note: basically asterisk(*) operator is the default way of merging two iterables

thank you very much for your great content! :) very interesting and clear

Thank you very much!!

Thank you for this clear explanation!

good explanation. Thank you! What video editing program you use ?

Well explained! Thank you.

Hey Dan
At first i didn't understand the trick (merging two dictionaries) that appears on your real python website .
But now it's crystal clear
Thank you Dan barder
Expecting more such tricks from real python team .

Thank you, that was helpful... 😊

good video tutorial:

>>> *a, = "RealPython"
>>> print(*a)
R e a l P y t h o n
>>> print(a)

['R', 'e', 'a', 'l', 'P', 'y', 't', 'h', 'o', 'n']
>>> zeros = (0,) * 8
>>> print(zeros)
(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
>>> *a,
('R', 'e', 'a', 'l', 'P', 'y', 't', 'h', 'o', 'n')
>>> *c, b = a
>>> *c,
('R', 'e', 'a', 'l', 'P', 'y', 't', 'h', 'o')

Nice

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