Hello, You’re presumably doing something like ‘star = starcaller(f); star((“foo”, “bar”, “baz”))’ – how is it different from ‘f(*(“foo”, “bar”, “baz”))’ ? I don’t see any difference… -Emanuel From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+vgr255=live.ca@python.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Spitz Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:07 AM To: python-ideas@python.org Subject: [Python-ideas] Addition to operator module: starcaller Hello, I have run into a use case where I want to create a wrapper object that will star-unpack a sequence of arguments to pass to a function. Currently one way to construct this is to create a function: def starcaller(f): def wrapper(args): return f(*args) return wrapper Such a function feels simple enough, and specific enough to the language, that it would fit in well in the operator module of the standard library. We already have a similar representation of this functionality in itertools.starmap. Whereas the nested function implementation above will produce unpickleable objects (due to the closure), a straightforward c implementation will produce pickleable ones, making them useful for parallel applications. Thanks, Dan Spitz