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Python Functions, Packing, and Unpacking Getting Info In and Out of Functions Functions with Arguments and Returns

Posted by ernestmurewa
ernestmurewa
3,889 Points

guys im stuck on this task:

Call the hello_student() function and save the return value to a variable called hello.

creating_functions.py 
def hello_student(name) :
    return 'Hello ' + name
   hello_student()
    print (hello)

1 Answer

Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas
40,856 Points
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas
40,856 Points

So there are two parts to this question: the first part is to call the hello_student function. To do this you write the name of the function, an opening bracket, any parameters you're going to pass to the function, and then a closing bracket. In the case of this function, it takes one parameter - name. So we'd write it as:

hello_student("Charlie")

The second part asks us to store this in a variable called name. As a recap, in Python, we declare a variable by writing the variable name followed by an equals sign followed by the value of the variable. For example, to set the variable a equal to three we would write:

a = 3

Now putting these parts together we create a variable called hello and store the value from hello_student function in it.

def hello_student(name):
    return 'Hello ' + name

name = hello_student("Charlie")
ernestmurewa
ernestmurewa
3,889 Points

i'm still getting an error