Setting the default value of a function input to equal another input in Python

Question

Consider the following function, which does not work in Python, but I will use to explain what I need to do.

def exampleFunction(a, b, c = a):
    ...function bo         


        

Answer 1

One approach is something like:

def foo(a, b, c=None):
    c = a if c is None else c
    # do something