Jan 17, 2013 · In Python 3.5 though, PEP 484 -- Type Hints attaches a single meaning to this: -> is used to indicate the type that the function returns. It also seems like this will be enforced in …

Jan 9, 2020 · The function parameter syntax (/) is to indicate that some function parameters must be specified positionally and cannot be used as keyword arguments. (This is new in Python …

By "modern Python" I mean something that will run in Python 2.5 but be 'correct' for the Python 2.6 and Python 3.* way of doing things. And by "custom" I mean an Exception object that can …

Functions, in Python, are first class objects - which means you can pass a function as an argument to another function, and return functions. Decorators do both of these things.

466 I have a Python function which takes several arguments. Some of these arguments could be omitted in some scenarios.

Does * have a special meaning in Python as it does in C? I saw a function like this in the Python Cookbook: def get (self, *a, **kw) Would you please explain it to me or point out where I can …

What exactly do *args and **kwargs mean? According to the Python documentation, from what it seems, it passes in a tuple of arguments. def foo (hello, *args): print (hello) for each in args:...

For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see What is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where OP omitted a …

Aug 31, 2008 · See What do ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) mean in a function call? for the complementary question about arguments.

In Python, iterable is an object that is, well, iterable, which simply put, means that it can be used in iteration, e.g. with a for loop. How? By using iterator. I'll explain below. ... while iterator is an …