Python documentation for os.removexattr — what does the '*' (star) argument mean?

Question

My first question, please be gentle. I searched but could not find an answer here or elsewhere.

Note that this question does not apply to unpacking of arguments like

Answer 1

The single asterisk * just means that it is forcing you to use named arguments. In this case if you want to pass a value for follow_symlinks, you have to pass the argument name.

The idea is you don't having to read function calls like foo(True, False, False) and not know what those values are doing.