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This Python tutorial explains how functions work and why they are essential for writing reusable, organized code. The lesson begins with creating a basic function using the def keyword, calling it, ...

In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...