I want to know what the following code means and what each of a, b, and c become:
def addit(a,b,*c):
return a+b+sum(c)
addit(3,5,15,21,5)
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martineau
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This is silly way to reproduce the `sum` function. – juanpa.arrivillaga Oct 21 '16 at 22:22
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put a `print` statement before the return statement and you'll probably be able to answer it yourself: `print a, b, c`..(hint: should give you `3 5 (15, 21, 5))` – chickity china chinese chicken Oct 21 '16 at 22:22
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a and b are the first two arguments (3 and 5, respectively, in your example). c is a positional argument - it's a list of all the arguments from the third onward (in your example, it is (15, 21, 5)).
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