Designing New Functions: A Recipe
Writing a good essay requires planning: deciding on a topic, learning the background material, writing an outline, and then filling in the outline until you’re done.
Writing a good function also requires planning. You have an idea of what you want the function to do, but you need to decide on the details: What do you name the function? What are the parameters? What does it return?
This section describes a step-by-step recipe for designing and writing a function. Part of the outcome will be a working function, but almost as important is the documentation for the function. Python uses three double quotes to start and end this documentation; everything in between is meant for humans to read. This notation is ...
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