Session 6: Advanced Argument Passing and Modules

Advanced Argument Passing

Readings

• Advanced Argument Passing
• A bit more on mutability (and copies)
• Code Structure, Modules, and Namespaces

Supplemental Reading

• http://stupidpythonideas.blogspot.com/2013/08/arguments-and-parameters.html

• https://pythontips.com/2013/08/04/args-and-kwargs-in-python-explained/

Exercises:

• args and kwargs Lab
• Mailroom With Unit Tests

NOTE: you will find that most introductions to unit testing with Python use the built in unittest module. However, it is a bit heavyweight, and requires some knowledge of OOP – classes, etc. So we use pytest in this class: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/. But the principles of testing are the same.