How did this code work? - small question

Question

This is clearly an easy code and understandable.
But for some reason, I don't get it.
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def my_min(*args):
return min(args)

print(my_min(8, 13, 4, 42, 120, 7))
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My question here is where did we get the function 'min' and how did the output give '4'

Thank you for your time, have a great day!

Answer 1

just to give this information additionally to the post of Lamron :

> variable / parameter *args* is of type *tuple*, so it looks like: (8, 13, 4, 42, 120, 7).

min(args) returns: 4.

Answer 2

Hello.

* Inside a function before the parameter means that this parameter can take any amount of numbers/strings inside that argument.

In here, we have a group of numbers: 8,13,4,42,120,7 — These will all be assigned to *args parameter. Therefore args parameter will have thee values.

min() is a built-in python function. Looks at the smallest value in a group of values.

It goes through the parameter *args and selects the smallest value, which is 4

Answer 3

Thanks @Lothar , @Lamron