How to convert a list/tuple into an function argument list easily?

[Gerhard Haering]

* Pierre Rouleau <pieroul at attglobal.net> [2002-12-15 21:20 -0500]:
> [...] is there an easy way to convert a tuple into all of its elements so that 
> i could write something like:
> 
> 	val = struct.pack('<LHH', elementsOf(record))

Yes, there is:

    def foo(x, y): return x + y

    args = [3, 4]
    print foo(*args)

there also the older way to do it with apply:

    print apply(foo, args)

-- Gerhard

PS: In addition to the *args form, there is also the **kwargs form for keyword
arguments.