You aren't really showing off different ways to get arguments in any of those examples. In all of them, you get the arguments in a list called @_; you're just showing off three different ways to get values out of a list, which Python has plenty of ways to do as well. Translating your examples into Python:

    def add1(*_):
        _ = list(_)

        arg1, arg2 = _
        return arg1 + arg2

    def add2(*_):
        _ = list(_)

        arg1 = _.pop(0)
        arg2 = _.pop(0)
        return arg1 + arg2

    def add3(*_):
        _ = list(_)

        return _[0] + _[1]