Invalid syntax near *args in Python 2.7

Question

I keep getting invalid syntax at *args.

Here's a snippet of the code:

cmd, *args = sys.argv[1:]
globals()[cmd](*args)

I'm trying to pass multiple arguments to the functions in code.

Answer 1

You're trying to use Extended Iterable Unpacking, which is available starting from Python 3.

You'd replace it with

cmd = sys.argv[1]
args = sys.argv[2:]
globals()[cmd](*args)

to make it work in Python 2.