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Learn Python Programming

You're reading from   Learn Python Programming The no-nonsense, beginner's guide to programming, data science, and web development with Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996662
Length 508 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Gentle Introduction to Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Saving Time and Memory 6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Files and Data Persistence 8. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions 9. Cryptography and Tokens 10. Concurrent Execution 11. Debugging and Troubleshooting 12. GUIs and Scripts 13. Data Science 14. Web Development 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the world of functions. They are extremely important and, from now on, we'll use them basically everywhere. We talked about the main reasons for using them, the most important of which are code reuse and implementation hiding.

We saw that a function object is like a box that takes optional inputs and produces outputs. We can feed input values to a function in many different ways, using positional and keyword arguments, and using variable syntax for both types.

Now you should know how to write a function, document it, import it into your code, and call it.

The next chapter will force me to push my foot down on the throttle even more, so I suggest you take any opportunity you get to consolidate and enrich the knowledge you've gathered so far by putting your nose into the Python official documentation.

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