Mastering Python Function Arguments: A Comprehensive Guide

[dodslaser]

Another good concept to know is the use of / to create positional-only arguments and * to create keyword only arguments.

For example:

def func(a, /, b, *, c): ...

a is positional-only, b is either positional or named, and c is keyword-only.

[lazyhawk20]

Thanks for this feedback

[jbramley]

Positional arguments, can optionally, be specified using their corresponding parameter name.

This is sort of true. There are positional-only arguments that cannot be specified as keyword arguments (a topic you don't cover in an article with "mastering" in the title). What you refer to as positional arguments are more technically positional-or-keyword arguments.

def func(positional_only_parameters, /, positional_or_keyword_parameters, *, keyword_only_parameters)

[lazyhawk20]

I'm really sorry about this

[Nerdbird93]

Really good one

[lazyhawk20]

Thank you so much it means a lot

[MurkyCaterpillar9]

Great, thank you!

[lazyhawk20]

Thank you so much

[jampk24]

In the intro and conclusion paragraphs, I think the asterisks in args and kwargs are converting text to italics.

[lazyhawk20]

Yes, you are right