What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) do for parameters?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3690...

Accepted answer links:
[more on defining functions]: http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/contro...
[as a tuple]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/contr...
[Extended Iterable Unpacking]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/
[PEP 3102]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3102/
[What’s New In Python 3.6]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.h...

Answer 4 links:
[keyword only arguments]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3102/

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