Calling functions: Why this complicated ?

[Mohan Parthasarathy]

Hi,
I am a newbie. I am reading

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/KeywordArguments.html

Defining a function with "N" arguments and calling them in "M" different
ways. Why does it have to be this complicated ? I like the idea of calling
the function by explicitly naming the arguments, but there are so many other
ways here that is very confusing. Do people really use all these features ?
Perhaps, there is a equivalent book to "Javascript: Good Parts" for Python ?

-thanks
mohan
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