How to convert a list/tuple into an function argument list easily?

[Neal Norwitz]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:20:59 -0500, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
> 
> This fails:
>  >>> val = struct.pack('<LHH', record)
> 
> But this works:
>  >>> val = struct.pack('<LHH', record[0], record[1], record[2])
>
> is there an easy way to convert a tuple into all of its elements so that
> i could write something like:
> 
> 	val = struct.pack('<LHH', elementsOf(record))

    val = struct.pack('<LHH', *record)

works in Python 2.0 or 2.1 and above.  I forget when it was added.

Neal