"""Identity return."""

# Author: Tim Ortkamp <tim.ortkamp@kit.edu>

# %% Function definition


def identity(value, *args):
    """
    Return the identity of the first input parameter.

    Parameters
    ----------
    value : arbitrary
        Value to be returned.

    *args : tuple
        Tuple with optional (non-keyworded) parameters.

    Returns
    -------
    value : arbitrary
        See 'Parameters'.
    """

    return value
