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Functions in python require arguments and you can be rather expressive with them. You can have functions that accept any number of arguments and there's many nice use-cases to be able to pass around keyword arguments. In this series of videos we'll explore how to use arguments (args) as well as keyword arguments (kwargs).

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The example below contains the call that is able to unpack both the *args as well as the **kwargs.

def function(a, b, *args, keyword=True, **kwargs):
    print(a, b)
    print(args)
    print(keyword)
    print(kwargs)

d = {'param_a': 43, 'param_b': 44}
function(1, 2, *[5, 3, 4], param=42, **d)

Feel free to play with the code until you understand the print statements. Pay attention to the symmetry between * and ** arguments.

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