What the hell is this?!?!

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February 20th, 2013, 12:20 PM

Th3C00lk1d

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What the hell is this?!?!

Why the freakin hell won't this program work?

Code:

# This program will prompt the user to enter 2 scores and calculate the average.

def getScores():
    score1 = float(input("Enter the first score: "))
    score2 = float(input("Enter the second score: "))
    average = calcAverage(score1, score2)
    print ("The average is: ", average)

def calcAverage(score1, score2):
    average = (score1+score2)/2

def main():
    getScores()
main()

February 20th, 2013, 12:32 PM

dariyoosh

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Because your average function doesn't return the average value (no return statement explicitly written in the function = return None), it should be something like this:

Code:

def calcAverage(score1, score2):
    return (score1+score2)/2

The title of the topics created on this forum are used for those who do search before creating a new topic, so obviously, the title must somehow reflect what the topic is about.

Reading your topic title " What the hell is this?!?!" doesn't seem to conform to this best practice rule.

Regards,
Dariyoosh

Last edited by dariyoosh : February 20th, 2013 at 12:41 PM.

February 20th, 2013, 12:50 PM

Th3C00lk1d

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Thanks for the help. However, if I may ask, what exactly is a return statement and when would I use a return statement?

February 20th, 2013, 01:24 PM

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I am pretty sure the return statement calls on the function, while a print will produce the text. Somebody correct me if I am wrong...

February 20th, 2013, 02:40 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Th3C00lk1d

Thanks for the help. However, if I may ask, what exactly is a return statement and when would I use a return statement?

According to Python (3) online tutorial
http://docs.python.org/3.0/tutorial...ining-functions

Quote:

...
The return statement returns with a value from a function. return without an expression argument returns None. Falling off the end of a function also returns None
...

For example, let's say you define a function that takes as parameters two integers and calculates their product.

The mathematical syntax would be something like this:

productFun(x,y) = x * y

In python you write

Code:

def productFun(x, y):
    return x * y

So thanks to the return statement, I may later write elsewhere in my code, for example:

Code:

. . .
# so var will receive the value of 12 * 10 returned by the return statement of the function
var = productFun(12,  10)

Regards,
Dariyoosh

What the hell is this?!?!

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