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Python 101: Interactively learn how to program with Python 3

Keyword Arguments

Explore how Python functions accept keyword arguments alongside regular arguments. Understand default argument values and how to call functions correctly to avoid errors. This lesson helps you write functions that are easy to use and flexible by leveraging keyword arguments.

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Functions can also accept keyword arguments! They can actually accept both regular arguments and keyword arguments. What this means is that you can specify which keywords are which and pass them in.

Python 3.5
def keyword_function(a=1, b=2):
    return a+b
result = keyword_function(b=4, a=5)
print(result) # 9

You could have also called this function without specifying the keywords. This function also demonstrates ...