Python How-To

6 Defining user-friendly functions

This chapter covers

• Setting proper default arguments for a function
• Setting and using the return value for a function
• Applying type hints to the parameters and the return value
• Defining functions with a variable number of positional and keyword arguments
• Creating proper docstrings for a function

In previous chapters, you’ve seen several examples of functions. Broadly speaking, no matter what our applications are about, we define a wide range of functions to perform various operations, such as making calculations and formatting strings. When you work in a team environment, you often need to define functions that allow your team members to reuse your code. When you publish a Python package, the package should ...