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"The revised `add_xyz()` function below is more natural to reason about as it does *not* modify the passed in `arg` internally. [PythonTutor <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](http://pythontutor.com/visualize.html#code=letters%20%3D%20%5B%22a%22,%20%22b%22,%20%22c%22%5D%0A%0Adef%20add_xyz%28arg%29%3A%0A%20%20%20%20new_arg%20%3D%20arg%5B%3A%5D%0A%20%20%20%20new_arg.extend%28%5B%22x%22,%20%22y%22,%20%22z%22%5D%29%0A%20%20%20%20return%20new_arg%0A%0Aletters_with_xyz%20%3D%20add_xyz%28letters%29&cumulative=false&curInstr=0&heapPrimitives=nevernest&mode=display&origin=opt-frontend.js&py=3&rawInputLstJSON=%5B%5D&textReferences=false) shows that as well. This approach is following the **[functional programming <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_wiki.png\">](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming)** paradigm that is going through a \"renaissance\" currently. Two essential characteristics of functional programming are that a function *never* changes its inputs and *always* returns the same output given the same inputs.\n",
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"For a beginner, it is probably better to stick to this idea and not change any arguments as the original `add_xyz()` above. However, functions that modify and return the argument passed in are an important aspect of object-oriented programming, as explained in Chapter 10."
"For a beginner, it is probably better to stick to this idea and not change any arguments as the original `add_xyz()` above. However, functions that modify and return the argument passed in are an important aspect of object-oriented programming, as explained in [Chapter 10 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/10_classes_00_content.ipynb)."
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"We implicitly assume that the first element represents the $x$ and the second the $y$ coordinate. While that follows intuitively from convention in math, we should at least add comments somewhere in the code to document this assumption.\n",
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"A better way is to create a *custom* data type. While that is covered in depth in Chapter 10, the [collections <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html) module in the [standard library <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html) provides a [namedtuple() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple) **factory function** that creates \"simple\" custom data types on top of the standard `tuple` type."
"A better way is to create a *custom* data type. While that is covered in depth in [Chapter 10 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/10_classes_00_content.ipynb), the [collections <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html) module in the [standard library <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html) provides a [namedtuple() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"static/link_to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple) **factory function** that creates \"simple\" custom data types on top of the standard `tuple` type."
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