Python will allow doing that, but not using standard data types. You can define a class for a polynomial and then define any methods or functions to get the highest power or anything else.

Sep 5, 2015 · The same is true of the arguments in the function you've provided. This means that the order of the arguments in a function call is important. The Python language, like many others, …

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new_function = function_writer() new_function() In this case there doesn't seem to be much point (just as there wouldn't normally be much point defining a function that always returns 0), but if …

In python the statement globals()[function_name]() is the same as foo() if function_name = 'foo' for the reasons discussed above, since python must lookup each function before calling it. If one were to …

Apr 7, 2017 · Python doesn't know that you are calling the function with the proper types, and expects the programmer to take care of that. If your function will be called with different types of parameters, …

Python is a dynamic programming language and the interpreter always takes the state of the variables (functions,...) as they are at the moment of calling them. You could even redefine the functions in …

May 26, 2018 · You can define a function outside of a class and then add it. However, there is a subtle difference in assigning the function to the class or to the instance object.

The natural, simple, direct, explicit way to get information back from a function is to return it. Broadly speaking, the purpose of a function is to compute a value, and return signifies "this is the value we …

Python is a strongly-typed dynamic language, which associates types with values, not names. If you want to force callers to provide data of specific types the only way you can do so is by adding explicit …