When was "wishes" assigned its value?

Hi there, Cedric Lefrancois! It was assigned a value the moment we called the function. The wishes is a parameter in the function definition. A parameter is used to "catch" an argument at the moment we call/invoke/execute the function (however you prefer to say it).

For instance:

def say_hi(name):
     print(f"Hi there, {name}")

Right now, name has no value at all. It's an empty variable just waiting for something to be assigned to it.

However, if I were to do this:

say_hi("Cedric")

That calls the function and sends it the string "Cedric". Now name does have a value and it is "Cedric".

The function shown here starts with:

def display_wishes(display_name, wishes):

At this point neither display_name nor wishes have any value whatsoever. But when I do this:

display_wishes("Video Games", video_games)

Then display_name gets a value of the string "Video Games" and wishes gets whatever is stored in video_games.

Hope this helps!