Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point ...

Python functions can use both positional and keyword arguments; the latter provide a certain level of documentation for an argument and its meaning, while allowing them to be given in any order in a ...

Back in November, we looked at a Python proposal to have function arguments with defaults that get evaluated when the function is called, rather than when it is defined. The article suggested that the ...

Last week, I was given a small assignment in class. It was a seemingly simple task: "Write a function that records test ...

In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...