PyCon AU 2025

Evan Kohilas

Evan is a serial international speaker and engineering productivity advocate who values frictionless simplicity, taming tech debt, thinking in systems, and tightening feedback loops – all to improve the developer experience and achieve nohumanerrors.com

When he's not working on his next talk or project idea, you may catch him as the Assistant Director for PyCon Australia, tumbling down slopes with a snowboard, chasing frisbees, or defending subway cookies.


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Session

09-13
12:00
30min
Args: Amazing or Approaching?
Evan Kohilas

From default args, to **kwargs, and everything in-between, Python's comprehensive argument system lends itself to some of the most effective code, through encouraging readability, reuse, and easy refactoring.

But is that really true? Why, and why not?
What could we learn from other languages?
And what else could lie in their future?

Main Conference
Ballroom 1