Functions in Python are very important, even when you forget that they are objects. To make functions easier to use, there are a lot of additional features that have been added as Python developed.

There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...

Suppose you want to define a function which can accept any number of parameters. The solution to this is to specify a parameter of the form *name. In this case all of the arguments, as many as ...