[Tutor] Problem with default arguments for function

[Alan Gauld]

"Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote

> And if the function is rewritten as def fact(n, full=False, 
> precision=15)
> there would be the analogous problem involving full.
>
> Is there a way to solve this problem of the unnecessary setting of
> the 2nd argument?

The most common solution I've seen is to write wrappers
around the basic function like:

def fullFact(n, precision=15):
    return fact(n,True,precision)

def precisionFact(n, full=False):
    return fact(n, full, 15)

Not terribly elegant but is at least short and simple.

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