We can use *-operator (star operator) to unpack the arguments out of a list or tuple. Here is an example with python built in range() function :
>>> mylist = [3, 10] >>> mylist [3, 10] >>> range(mylist[0], mylist[1]) [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> range(*mylist) [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>>