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Brenda Ramirez
557 PointsTypes of paramenters
Are there "types of parameters" that define what arguments can be passed into a function when it is called. For example, this function can be called using a line of code like yell("You are doing great"). But would the use of the word "text" as a parameter control what arguments the person calling the function can pass in? Calling this function while passing an integer as an argument produces error messages. So do types of parameters exist? def yell(text): text = text.upper() number_of_characters = len(text) result = text + "!" * (number_of_characters // 4) print (result)
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Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsPython isn't strongly typed, so types can be more dynamic. No, you can't force parameters to be of a specific type, but in newer versions of Python, you can "hint" Python that parameters should be a specific type.