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Functions, Packing, and Unpacking

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Calling a Function

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Now that you've learned to create functions, learn to execute them by calling them.

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    If the interpreter encounters a function call, it will jump to that function, 0:00
    execute all the code inside of it, and then go back to its previous place. 0:03
    This means that you can execute the code inside a function 0:08
    as many times as you want without having to rewrite all that code or copy and 0:10
    paste a bunch of code into the correct place. 0:14
    Instead, all you have to do is call the function anytime you want to 0:17
    use the code instead of it. 0:20
    The syntax for 0:22
    calling a function is the function’s name followed by a set of parens, that’s it. 0:22
    Let’s pick up where we left off in the previous video. 0:28

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