call f(a, *b) with f(*a, **b) ?

[inhahe]

>> 1
>> 2

actually, you don't want it to print 3 also?  if not, then you would do 
f(*map(kwargs.get, inspect.getargspec(f)[0])+args[:1])

> import inspect
> f(*map(kwargs.get, inspect.getargspec(f)[0])+args)
>