i(*args) statement

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In general, *args allows a function to accept a variable number of positional parameters, and allows passing of a sequence as different positional parameters:

def show(*args):
    print(args[1])
    return [args[0]] + args[2:]

def add(a, b):
    return a + b
x = [2, 3]
add(*x)

There is also **kwargs, which allows similar functionality for dictionaries and variable sets of keyword parameters.

*args and **kwargs are often used for passing large variable lists through a function or method. The function or method at hand may not care about them, but a function or method it calls will care about them.