Here's the article again so it has it's proper link:

https://thepythoncodingbook.com/2022/04/24/python-lunar-landing-game-using-turtle-tutorial/

I sometimes struggle to recall which of the / or * symbols does what

To remember which is which, you can note that the asterisk * is the same as used when creating *args

In fact, you could replace * with *args and the function will work in a similar manner in this case

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*args is "mopping up" all remaining positional arguments before the keyword arguments – keyword arguments always come after positional ones in a function call

In this example, there are no additional positional arguments to "mop up", so `args` is an empty tuple

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Note that if using *args, all arguments before the *args need to be positional so the / is no longer needed in this case

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Just using * instead of *args takes care of this scenario and therefore forces the remaining parameters to be used with keyword-only arguments

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We'll now move on to the final part of this series on Python functions and talk about making functions neater, more readable, and possible minimise bugs by use type annotations and docstrings

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In the function definition, `greeting` is before the forward slash /

Therefore, the argument assigned to `greeting` must be a positional-only argument

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Parameters before the forward slash / : must use positional-only arguments

Parameters after the asterisk * : must use keyword-only arguments

Parameter in between / and * : can be either positional arguments or keyword arguments

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Therefore the argument which matches `repeat` is a "normal" one. It can be passed either as a positional argument or as a keyword argument

The user who's calling the function can choose

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