How to type hint args and kwargs, if not unpacking, in most general form?

Question

Let's say I want to pass args and kwargs to a function without using *args and **kwargs.

In the event, what is the most general type hint to use?

Is it Iterable for args and Mapping for kwargs?

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Sample Code

Here is some sample code made using Python 3.8.

from typing import Mapping, Iterable

def foo(*args, **kwargs) -> None:
    pass

def foo_dispatcher(foo_args: Iterable, foo_kwargs: Mapping) -> None:
    foo(*foo_args, **foo_kwargs)

foo_dispatcher([0], {"ham": 1})

Answer 1

If you know your actual arguments and kwargs then you can obviously use the specifics, including TypedDict for the the arguments.

In this most-general case you you can use Iterable and Mapping[str, object].

For known functions over-typing is quite possible here, thanks to named non-keywords, variable length positional arguments, etc. You may not want to disallow def foo(a, b, c=4) being called as foo(1, b=1, c=2)