What are *args and **kwargs?

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*args collects extra positional arguments into a tuple. **kwargs collects extra keyword arguments into a dictionary. They let a function accept a flexible number of arguments, and the same symbols unpack a list or dict when calling: f(*args, **kwargs).

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