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A developer uses *args to accept a variable number of positional arguments. What does this print, and what type is args inside the function?

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def total(*args):
    print(type(args))
    return sum(args)

print(total(1, 2, 3))
print(total(10, 20, 30, 40, 50))
print(total())

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easy*args & **kwargs

A developer uses *args to accept a variable number of positional arguments. What does this print, and what type is args inside the function?

Code

def total(*args):
    print(type(args))
    return sum(args)

print(total(1, 2, 3))
print(total(10, 20, 30, 40, 50))
print(total())