Normal arguments vs. keyword arguments

Question

How are \"keyword arguments\" different from regular arguments? Can\'t all arguments be passed as name=value instead of using positional syntax?

Answer 1

I was looking for an example that had default kwargs using type annotation:

def test_var_kwarg(a: str, b: str='B', c: str='', **kwargs) -> str:
     return ' '.join([a, b, c, str(kwargs)])

example:

>>> print(test_var_kwarg('A', c='okay'))
A B okay {}
>>> d = {'f': 'F', 'g': 'G'}
>>> print(test_var_kwarg('a', c='c', b='b', **d))
a b c {'f': 'F', 'g': 'G'}
>>> print(test_var_kwarg('a', 'b', 'c'))
a b c {}