When automating tasks with Python, you often want to call other programs on your machine. However, there is not just one ...
Many extensions simply provide functions for the Python code to use. In this case the only task that you have is to ensure that the C function can accept the arguments the Python function call passes ...
Python supports default values for arguments to functions, but those defaults are evaluated at function-definition time. A proposal to add defaults that are evaluated when the function is called has ...
Python functions can use both positional and keyword arguments; the latter provide a certain level of documentation for an argument and its meaning, while allowing them to be given in any order in a ...