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1.

Required Arguments

These are the arguments that must be passed to the function in the correct positional order.

def add(a, b):

return a + b

# Calling the function

result = add(5, 3) # Required arguments

print(result) # Output: 8

2. Keyword Arguments

With keyword arguments, you can specify arguments by their name instead of the order

def introduce(name, age):

print(f"My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.")

# Calling with keyword arguments

introduce(age=25, name="Alice") # Order does not matter here

3. Default Arguments

In default arguments, if a value for a parameter is not provided, the function uses a default value.

def greet(name, msg="Hello"):

print(f"{msg}, {name}!")

# Calling without the second argument uses the default value

greet("John") # Output: Hello, John!

# Calling with both arguments

greet("John", "Good Morning") # Output: Good Morning, John!


4. Variable-length Arguments

These allow you to pass a variable number of arguments to the function.

 Arbitrary Positional Arguments (*args): Accepts a tuple of arguments.

def sum_all(*numbers):

total = 0

for num in numbers:

total += num

return total

# Passing variable number of arguments

result = sum_all(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

print(result) # Output: 15

Arbitrary Keyword Arguments (**kwargs): Accepts a dictionary of keyword arguments.

def display_info(**info):

for key, value in info.items():

print(f"{key}: {value}")

# Passing keyword arguments

display_info(name="Alice", age=25, country="USA")

# Output:

# name: Alice

# age: 25

# country: USA

By default (*numbers) will accept inputs in tuple format and (**numbers) in dictionary format

If you want to accept your data into set and list you need to convert it.
For set

def add_to_set(*elements):

my_set = set(elements)

return my_set

# Passing variable number of arguments

result_set = add_to_set(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

print(result_set) # Output: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

for list

def add_to_list(*elements):

my_list = list(elements)

return my_list

# Passing variable number of arguments

result_list = add_to_list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

print(result_list) # Output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

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