beacuse *args and **kwargs are too obscure

pythonic_unpacking

def unpack (collection):
    '''unpack arguments from a collection (list or dictionary)'''
    if type(collection) == list:
        return *collection
    if type(collection) == dict:
        return **collection
    else: print('invalid input to unpack()')

#wait its not nearly this simple...
#...I'll keep looking into this, gimme a bit

refs:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#calls
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22098105/unpacking-more-than-one-list-as-argument-for-a-function
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3480184/unpack-a-list-in-python

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/