No kidding. A much, much more simple way to put it is anything *args is a list, anything **kwargs is a dictionary. The * simply means list (set).

No kidding. A much, much more simple way to put it is anything *args is a list, anything **kwargs is a dictionary. The * simply means list (set). ** simply means dictionary (name/value pairs) * and ** has a much different meaning in other languages as parameters. * args is very similar to ... in other languages that let you send n arguments.