Learn Web Development with Python

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the world of functions. They are extremely important and, from now on, we'll use them basically everywhere. We talked about the main reasons for using them, the most important of which are code reuse and implementation hiding.

We saw that a function object is like a box that takes optional inputs and produces outputs. We can feed input values to a function in many different ways, using positional and keyword arguments, and using variable syntax for both types.

Now you should know how to write a function, document it, import it into your code, and call it.

The next chapter will force me to push my foot down on the throttle even more, so I suggest you take any opportunity you get to consolidate and enrich ...