What is the purpose of using the *args construct in a Python function?

The *args construct in Python is used to pass an arbitrary number of positional arguments to a function. It allows the function to accept any number of arguments without needing to list them explicitly.

Example:

def greet(*args):
    for name in args:
        print(f"Hello, {name}!")

# Can be called with any number of arguments

greet('Anna', 'Boris', 'Vika')

In this example, args is a tuple containing all passed positional arguments.