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Python Functions Tutorial

1. What is a Function in Python?

What Is Function?Challenge: Building Functions Arguments Return Value Function Body Built-in Functions

2. Positional and Optional Arguments

Positional Arguments Challenge: Positional Arguments Optional Arguments Challenge: Optional Arguments

3. Arbitrary Arguments

Arbitrary Arguments Arbitrary Keyword Arguments Combination of Positional and Optional Arguments

4. Function Return Value Specification

Single Return Value Multiple Return Values None Return Value Generator Functions Challenge: Traffic lights

5. Recursion and Lambda Functions

Recursion Challenge: Search Engine Lambda Functions Immediately Invoked Lambda Expression Writing Effective and Maintainable Functions

Arbitrary Keyword Arguments

In programming, there is a special syntax for passing any number of named parameters to a function, known as **kwargs.

**kwargs allows a function to accept any number of named arguments and treat them as a dictionary.


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def example_function(**kwargs):
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        print(f'{key}: {value}')

# Example function call
example_function(name='John', age=25, city='New York')

In this example, **kwargs receives named arguments and prints their keys and values.

Note

The .items() method is used to obtain a list of key-value pairs from a dictionary in Python. Each element in this list is represented as a tuple (key, value).

Task

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Complete the code in the function definition to allow it to accept a variable number of key-value pairs representing item names and their costs using keyword arguments kwargs.
Complete the code in the loop to correctly calculate the total cost of the items stored in the kwargs variable.

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Arbitrary Keyword Arguments

In programming, there is a special syntax for passing any number of named parameters to a function, known as **kwargs.

**kwargs allows a function to accept any number of named arguments and treat them as a dictionary.


              123456
            
def example_function(**kwargs):
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        print(f'{key}: {value}')

# Example function call
example_function(name='John', age=25, city='New York')

In this example, **kwargs receives named arguments and prints their keys and values.

Note

The .items() method is used to obtain a list of key-value pairs from a dictionary in Python. Each element in this list is represented as a tuple (key, value).

Task

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Complete the code in the function definition to allow it to accept a variable number of key-value pairs representing item names and their costs using keyword arguments kwargs.
Complete the code in the loop to correctly calculate the total cost of the items stored in the kwargs variable.

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Section 3. Chapter 2

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