*args, **kargs in function

Special forms of parameters:

*args: any number of positional arguments packed into a tuple

**kwargs: any number of keyword arguments packed into a dictionary

e.g.

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def (*args, **kwargs):
    print('args are', args)
    print('kwargs are', kwargs)
    
variable_args('one', 'two', x=1, y=2, z=3)

Result

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args is ('one', 'two')
kwargs is {'y': 2, 'x': 1, 'z': 3}