In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point ...

Suppose you want to define a function which can accept any number of parameters. The solution to this is to specify a parameter of the form *name. In this case all of the arguments, as many as ...