Keyword-only and Keyword-required arguments

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Python 3 allows you to define function arguments which can only be assigned by keyword, even without default values. This is done by using star * to consume additional positional parameters without setting the keyword parameters. All arguments after the * are keyword-only (i.e. non-positional) arguments. Note that if keyword-only arguments aren’t given a default, they are still required when calling the function.

def print_args(arg1, *args, keyword_required, keyword_only=True):
    print("first positional arg: {}".format(arg1))
    for arg in args:
        print("another positional arg: {}".format(arg))
    print("keyword_required value: {}".format(keyword_required))
    print("keyword_only value: {}".format(keyword_only))
    
print(1, 2, 3, 4) # TypeError: print_args() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'keyword_required'
print(1, 2, 3, keyword_required=4) 
# first positional arg: 1
# another positional arg: 2
# another positional arg: 3
# keyword_required value: 4
# keyword_only value: True

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