To define a function, we simply use the statement “def.” Can you guess what that’s short for? We then follow that statement with the name of our function (usually capitalizing each word ...

Creating functions allows code to be reused and repurposed. Every function is created with the word “def”, which stands for define, followed by the name for the function, a set of parentheses, and a ...

Functions written in Cython only using Python’s def keyword are visible to other Python code, but incur a performance penalty. The cython.cfunc decorator indicates the function in question is a ...