Is there a *args equivalent for variables when number of args is unknown?

Hi, I understand from the video that unpacking is strict and I played with it in the workspace and got the errors when adding/removing a valX and so on. Unpacking as presented works fine if you know how many items are returned by the function. But what if my function takes and returns an unknown number of items, like from user input, and I want to unpack those into variables? All I can think of is a for loop on the tuple with string concatenation adding the next index number to 'val' in order to create a new 'valN' name and add it to a list, then use the newly created list of variable names for unpacking. Would this work? Is there an easier way to do it, like *args?