Contains code for the Medium article "Writing Functions that Accept Variable Length of Arguments in Python" (https://medium.com/@kianyang_lee/writing-functions-that-accept-variable-length-of-arguments-in-python-2c9e6408081a) and article "Understanding Keyword Arguments (**kwargs) in Python" (https://medium.com/@kianyang_lee/understanding-keyword…

variable_length_of_function_arguments.py

def add_two_arguments(num_1: int, num_2: int) -> int:
    return num_1 + num_2


def add_three_arguments(num_1: int, num_2: int, num_3: int) -> int:
    return num_1 + num_2 + num_3


def add_arguments(*args) -> int:
    sum = 0
    for arg in args:
        sum += arg
    print("Result of adding all arguments are: ", sum)
    return sum


def multiply_sum_of_all_arguments_by_n_times(multiplier: int, *args) -> int:
    sum = 0
    for arg in args:
        sum += arg
    multiplied_sum = sum * multiplier
    print(
        f"Result of adding all arguments and multiply the sum by {multiplier} are: {multiplied_sum}"
    )
    return multiplied_sum


def add_arguments_using_kwargs(**kwargs) -> int:
    sum = 0
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        print(f"Adding {key} variable with value: {value}")
        sum += value
    print("Result of adding all arguments are: ", sum)
    return sum


def print_all(number_of_print_times: int = 2, **kwargs) -> None:
    for i in range(1, number_of_print_times + 1):
        print(f"Printing for round {i}")
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            print(f"Key: {key} - Value: {value}")


add_arguments(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
add_arguments(1, 2, 3)
add_arguments_using_kwargs(first_arg=1, second_arg=2, third_arg=3)
print_all(local_fruit_in_malaysia="durian", capital_of_malaysia="Kuala Lumpur")
print_all(
    local_fruit_in_malaysia="durian",
    capital_of_malaysia="Kuala Lumpur",
    number_of_print_times=1,
)

multiply_sum_of_all_arguments_by_n_times(2, 1, 2, 3)
multiply_sum_of_all_arguments_by_n_times(multiplier=2, 1, 2, 3) # this will throw SyntaxError