Name: Introduction to Functions in Python
Rating: 4.791139240506329 (316 reviews)

Introduction to Functions in Python

Beginner

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316 reviews

Updated 04/2025

Learn the art of writing your own functions in Python, as well as key concepts like scoping and error handling.

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Course Description

It's time to push forward and develop your Python chops even further. Python has tons of fantastic functions and a module ecosystem. However, as a data professional or developer, you'll constantly need to write your own functions to solve problems that are dictated by your data. You will learn the art of function writing in this first course. You'll come out of this course being able to write your very own custom functions, complete with multiple parameters and multiple return values, along with default arguments and variable-length arguments. You'll gain insight into scoping in Python, be able to write lambda functions and handle errors in your function writing practice. You'll wrap up each chapter by using your new skills to write functions that analyze Twitter data.

Prerequisites

Intermediate Python

Writing your own functions

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User-defined functions

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Strings in Python

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