The goal is to rewrite the function, below, such that passes in a different list of parameters, particularly eliminating the need to pass low and high for each recursive call to binary_search. defbinary_search(nums,low,high,item): mid=(low+high)//2iflow>high:returnFalse #The item doesn't exist in the list!elifnums[mid]==item:returnTrue# The item exists in the list!elifitem

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The goal is to rewrite the function, below, such that passes in a different list of parameters, particularly eliminating the need to pass low and high for each recursive call to binary_search.

defbinary_search(nums,low,high,item):
mid=(low+high)//2iflow>high:returnFalse #The item doesn't exist in the list!elifnums[mid]==item:returnTrue# The item exists in the list!elifitem<nums[mid]:returnbinary_search(nums,low,mid-1,item)else:returnbinary_search(nums,mid+1,high,item)

The new function should be prototyped below. The number of changes between the given version, and the one requested is not significant. 

defbinary_search(nums,item):pass# Remove this and fill in with your code

Tip: If you consider that high and low are used to create a smaller version of our problem to be processed recursively, the version requested will do the same thing, just through a different, more Pythonic technique.

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