pass value to function with * and/or **

[buran]

I think there is misunderstanding.
boo will be a tuple, hoo will be a dict.
if you call the function with [something like] list or dict you either unpack it during the call (in effect passing individual elements) or you will end up with 2 arguments in boo tuple and empty dict:

def foo(*boo, **hoo):
    print(type(boo), boo)
    print(type(hoo), hoo)

spam = [1, 2]
eggs = {'a':3, 'b':4}

foo(*spam, **eggs)
foo(spam, eggs)
foo(5, 6, c=7, d=8)

Output:
<class 'tuple'> (1, 2)
<class 'dict'> {'a': 3, 'b': 4}
<class 'tuple'> ([1, 2], {'a': 3, 'b': 4})
<class 'dict'> {}
<class 'tuple'> (5, 6)
<class 'dict'> {'c': 7, 'd': 8}

the idea is to allow having variable number of positional (*args) or keyword (**kwargs) arguments. *args and **kwargs is conventional way to name these.