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Need help with inputting stocks symbol

I would like to know why list unpacking doesn't work in Q ?
like :- context.stocks = (symbols(*['AAPL', 'IBM'])) # Gives runtime error
where :- context.stocks = (symbols('AAPL', 'IBM'))
works well .