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Workflows often have sequences of common steps repeated within or across scripts. Functions allow programmers to group related steps of code, name them, and reuse them by calling them by name. This chapter discusses defining functions with required and optional parameters, returning values from functions, organizing code with functions, and managing variables inside and outside of functions.
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Tateosian, L. (2015). User-Defined Functions. In: Python For ArcGIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18398-5_15
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