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Hi! I just released the alpha version of my new book; Practical Python Projects. Learn more about it on my blog. In 325+ pages, I will teach you how to implement 12 end-to-end projects. You can buy it from Feldroy.com. I have come to see that most new python programmers have a hard time figuring out the *args and **kwargs magic variables. So what are they ? First of all, let me tell you that it is not necessary to write *args or **kwargs. Only the * (asterisk) is necessary. You could have also written *var and **vars. Writing *args and **kwargs is just a convention. So now let’s take a look at *args first. *args and **kwargs are mostly used in function definitions. *args and **kwargs allow you to pass an unspecified number of arguments to a function, so when writing the function definition, you do not need to know how many arguments will be passed to your function. *args is used to send a non-keyworded variable length argument list to the function. Here’s an example to help you get a c

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