Python converting *args to list

args, arrays, python, python-2.7

Solution

Nothing too magic:

def __init__(self, *args):
  Parent.__init__(self, list(args))

Inside of `__init__`, the variable `args` is just a tuple with any arguments that were passed in. In fact you can probably just use `Parent.__init__(self, args)` unless you really need it to be a list.

As a side note, using `super()` is preferable to `Parent.__init__()`.

Problem

This is what I'm looking for: ``` def __init__(self, *args): list_of_args = #magic Parent.__init__(self, list_of_args) ``` I need to pass *args to a single array, so that: ``` MyClass.__init__(a, b, c) == Parent.__init__([a, b, c]) ```

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