you'd use the :func:`apply` built-in function: ``apply(f, args, kw)`` calls the
function :func:`f` with the argument tuple *args* and the keyword arguments in
the dictionary *kw*. :func:`apply` is the same in 2.0, but thanks to a patch
-from Greg Ewing, ``f(*args, **kw)`` as a shorter and clearer way to achieve the
+from Greg Ewing, ``f(*args, **kw)`` is a shorter and clearer way to achieve the
same effect. This syntax is symmetrical with the syntax for defining
functions::