Python, tuple arguments playing nicely with others

Question

For example:

mytuple = ("Hello","World")
def printstuff(one,two,three):
    print one,two,three

printstuff(mytuple," How are you")

This naturally crashes out with a TypeError because I'm only giving it two arguments when it expects three.

Is there a simple way of effectively 'splitting' a tuple in a tider way than expanding everything? Like:

printstuff(mytuple[0],mytuple[1]," How are you")

Answer 1

Kinda,... you can do this:

>>> def fun(a, b, c):
...     print(a, b, c)
...
>>> fun(*(1, 2), 3)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: only named arguments may follow *expression
>>> fun(*(1, 2), c=3)
1 2 3

As you can see, you can do what you want pretty much as long as you qualify any argument coming after it with its name.