Chapter 3. Function Definitions

In this chapter, we'll look at the following recipes:

• Designing functions with optional parameters

• Using super flexible keyword parameters

• Forcing keyword-only arguments with the * separator

• Writing explicit types on function parameters

• Picking an order for parameters based on partial functions

• Writing clear documentation strings with RST markup

• Designing recursive functions around Python's stack limits

• Writing reusable scripts with the script library switch