unpaking sequences of unknown length

[Diez B. Roggisch]

>> Question: Is there an unpacking mechanism for cases in which I don't 
>> know--and don't need to know--how many elements I get, or an
>> argument passing mechanism that is the inverse of the tuplifier (*args)?
> 
> No.
> 
> It looks a little bit as if you aren't aware of the symetry behind the * 
> and **-argument-passing schemes. I suggest reading up on them.

Sorry - I was somewhat unconcentrated and missed the last part of the 
sentence. So it is

No "generalized", yes, the inverse of *args is foo(*args)

Sorry for the confusion.

Diez