Call with do-what-I-mean args

gistfile1.py

def call_with_dwim_args(callable_, args):
    """
    Call and return ``callable_`` with *do-what-I-mean* ``args``. More
    precisely:

    | if ``args`` is a dict, call ``callable_(**args)``
    | if ``args`` is a list, call ``callable_(*args)``
    | otherwise, call             ``callable_(args)``

    The usual Pythonic solution of testing ``iter(args)`` and catching
    TypeError is not used here, since ``basestring`` is (apparently)
    iterable, which is not what I usually mean.
    """

    if isinstance(args, dict):
        return callable_(**args)
        
    elif isinstance(args, (list, tuple)):
        return callable_(*args)

    else:
        return callable_(args)