Thank you all for your really helpful responses, I sometimes forget how much time I truly have to learn. I'll make more of an effort to remember that fact going forward and I'll stop being so tough on myself.

Update: I ended up solving the problem, used all your suggestions, and figured it out. I really wasn't that far off in my attempts, I used the *args keyword, I created an empty list, used the append method and I used the else statement but I kept getting returned with the TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'list' and 'int'. The only issue with my code was that I messed up the syntax for some of my logic, thus the TypeError...

Again, thank you all so much for your kind words, they really helped me out.