short way to combine tuples and int's

[Annie]

if I have four kinds of data like

l1 = 1   #int
l0 = 8   #int
l2 = 2,3 #tuple
l3 = 4,5 #tuple

Is there an elegant single method to combine any two of these data and return a flattened tuple


for example if a method takes in m = l1,l3
it returns (1,4,5)
note that assuming I don't know the data type of elements in m when using this method
maybe there is a special method I can use but I don't know it

[snippsat]

* and ** specifiers in the function’s parameter.
This gives you the positional arguments as a tuple and the keyword arguments as a dictionary.

def foo(*args):
   return args

>>> l0 = 8 
>>> l1 = 1 
>>> l2 = 2,3
>>> l3 = 4,5

>>> foo(l1, l3)
(1, (4, 5))
>>> foo(l0, l1, l2, l3)
(8, 1, (2, 3), (4, 5))

[Annie]

Thank you!

But what if I want (4,5) to be unpacked in the result ?

so (1,4,5) instead of (1,(4,5))

[ichabod801]

Why does it need to be short? Why not just use an if statement?

[Annie]

Hmm...
Would one if statement be enough? there are three possibilities and they all need different treatment to get the desired result, right ? I mean something like (1,2,3,4,5)

Just asking if there are shorter ways to do this, if not, I'll use the if statement then

[sparkz_alot]

Is it possible to start with all tuples, for example

>>> a = 1,
>>> b = (2, 3)
>>> c = a + b
>>> c
(1, 2, 3)
>>>

[Annie]

Thanks!
Yeah, that is what I'm thinking, I guess I can try to find the int element in m, convert it to a tuple in m, then flatten the multi dimensional tuple