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Devashish Kumar
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FUNCTIONS
 A function is a block of organized, reusable code that is
used to perform a single, related action.
 Functions provide better modularity for the applications.
 Functions provide a high degree of code reusing.

RULES FOR DEFINING FUNCTION IN PYTHON
 Function blocks begin with the keyword def followed by the function name and
parentheses ( ( ) ).
 Any input parameters or arguments should be placed within these parentheses.
We also define parameters inside these parentheses.
 The code block within every function starts with a colon (:) and is indented.
 The statement return [expression] exits a function, optionally passing back an
expression to the caller.
 A return statement with no arguments is the same as return None.

Function Syntax
The keyword
def
introduces a
function
definition.
Input Parameter is placed within the
parenthesis() and also define
parameter inside the parenthesis.
Return statement exits a
function block. And we can also
use return with no argument.
The code block
within every
function starts
with a colon(:) .

PASSING ARGUMENTS TO FUNCTIONS
 In programming, there are two ways in which arguments can be passed to functions :-
 Pass by Value:
 Function creates a copy of the variable(Object in Python) passed to it as an argument.
 The actual object is not affected.
 Object is of immutable type,because immutable objects cannot be modiﬁed.
 Pass by Reference:
 The actual object is passed to the called function.
 All the changes made to the object inside the function affect its original value.
 Object is mutable type, as mutable objects can be changed, the passed objects are
updated.

EXAMPLES OF PASSING IMMUTABLE ARGUMENTS
OUTPUT: New memory address of ‘a’
inside the function.
Actual variable ‘a’ is not
changed.

EXAMPLES OF PASSING MUTABLE ARGUMENTS
Address is same
Value of my_list is
changed after
function call.

DEFAULT ARGUMENT VALUES
 Default Argument- argument that assumes a default value if a value is not
provided in the function call for that argument.
 The default value is evaluated only once.
 EXAMPLE:
Output:
In this code, argument ‘b’
has given a default value.
ie(b=90)
When the value of ‘b’ is not passed
in function ,then it takes default
argument.

DEFAULT ARGUMENTS
 The default value is evaluated only once. This makes a difference when the
default is a mutable object such as a list, dictionary, or instances of most
classes.
 Example:
 if we don’t want the default value to be shared between subsequent calls,
then
 Example :
Output:
Output:

KEYWORD ARGUMENTS
 Keyword arguments are related to the function calls.
 Using keyword arguments in a function call, the caller identifies the arguments
by the parameter name.
 Allows to skip arguments or place them out of order, the Python interpreter
use the keywords provided to match the values with parameters.
 Example:
Output:
 Caller identifies the keyword
argument by the parameter name.
 Calling of the argument Order
doesn’t matter .

KEYWORD ARGUMENTS
 Example 1:
Output:
Example 2: Output:

ARBITRARY ARGUMENT LISTS
 Variable-Length Arguments: more arguments than we specified while defining
the function.
 These arguments are also called variable-length arguments .
 An asterisk (*) is placed before the variable name that holds the values of all non
keyword variable arguments.
 This tuple remains empty if no additional arguments are specified during the
function call.
 Syntax :
def function_name([formal_args], *var_args_tuple ):
statement 1……
statement 2……
return [expression]
This is called
arbitrary argument
and asterisk sign is
placed before the
variable name.

ARBITRARY ARGUMENT LISTS
 EXAMPLE 1:
Output: Output:
 EXAMPLE 2:
 Any formal parameter which
occur after the *args
parameter are keyword-only
arguments.
 If formal parameter are not
keyword argument then error
occurred.

UNPACKING ARGUMENT LISTS
 Arguments are already in a list or tuple, need to be unpacked for a function
call requiring separate positional arguments.
 For instance, the built-in range() function expects separate start and stop
arguments.
 If range() are not available separately, write the function call with the *-operator
to unpack the arguments out of a list or tuple.
 Example 1: Example 2:
Output:
In dictionary, we use ‘**’ for unpacking the
arguments
In tuples or lists, ‘*’ is
used to unpack the
arguments

LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS
 Small functions can be created with the lambda keyword also known as
Anonymous function.
 Used wherever functions object are required.
 These functions are called anonymous because they are not declared in the
standard manner by using the def keyword. .
 Syntax :
 EXAMPLE:
lambda [arg1 [,arg2,.....argn]]:expression
Output:
 The function returns the multiply of
two arguments.
 Lambda function is restricted to a
single expressions.

FUNCTION ANNOTATIONS
 Function annotations are completely optional metadata information about the
types used by user-defined functions.
 Annotations are stored in the “__annotations__” attribute .
 Parameter annotations are defined by a colon after the parameter name,
followed by an expression evaluating to the value of the annotation.
 Return annotations are defined by a literal ->, followed by an expression,
between the parameter list and the colon denoting the end of the def statement.
 Example:
Output:
Literal ‘->’ is used to
define return
annotations.

DOCUMENTATION STRINGS
 The first line should always be a short, concise summary of the object’s
purpose.
 The first line should begin with a capital letter and end with a period.
 If there are more lines in the documentation string, the second line should be
blank.
 The first non-blank line after the first line of the string determines the amount
of indentation for the entire documentation string.
 Example:
Output:
‘.doc’ is used to print the
documentation strings.

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