Function arguments (in Python for example)

Question

What are [function] arguments? What are they used for?
I started learning Python very recently; I\'m new to programming and I apologize for this basic

Answer 1

An argument is a special variable that exists only in that function.

In your example you have a function that takes 2 arguments:

def add(num1,num2):
    x = num1 + num2
    return x

When I call this function with add(), I have to add in the parentheses what I want num1 and num2 to be. In your case, you have 1 and 3, so you call it like this add(1,3).

What you're saying there is that you want to call add() and you want the first argument, num1 to be equal to 1, and the second argument, num2, to be equal to 3.