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<div><h2 id="a0000000047">6.3.5 Calling functions with lists of arguments</h2>
<p>The <tt class="tt">call(<img src="images/img-0295.png" alt="$f,a$" style="vertical-align:-4px;
width:26px;
height:16px" class="math gen" />)</tt><a name="a0000000617" id="a0000000617"></a> function can be used to call a function with an arbitrary list of arguments. For example: </p><p> <tt class="ttfamily">pyxplot> <b class="bfseries">print romanNumeral(2012)</b></tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">MMXII</tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">pyxplot> <b class="bfseries">print call(romanNumeral,[2012])</b></tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">MMXII</tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">pyxplot> <b class="bfseries">print pow(2,8)</b></tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">256</tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">pyxplot> <b class="bfseries">print call(pow,[2,8])</b></tt><br /><tt class="ttfamily">256</tt> </p></div>
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