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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Create a Function

Posted by Moises Trevizo
Moises Trevizo
451 Points

need help with the squaring.py coding challenge

it sends me an eof on line 4 and can't figure out whats wrong.

squaring.py 
def square (number):
    return number*number

number = int(input("what number you want squared?   "))
number_squared = square(number)         
print('the square of that is {}'.format(number_squared))

2 Answers

Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points

Hi Moises

Not sure whether you are stuck at challenge task 1 or 2 but here's some help:

Challenge task 1 of 2: Here only two rows suffice.

def square (number):
    return number * number

Challenge task 2 of 2:

def square(number):
    return number * number

# storing the value from the function call to variable named 'result'
result = square(3)

# print out the result
print(result)

Hope this helps!

David Shams
David Shams
378 Points

Why did we have to use the hashtags? What in the prompt should have signaled that as a requirement? Because I got the code correct, but didn't have any of the hashtags/instructions.

Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points
Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points

Hello David

Those hashtag lines are comments in Python. I just added these comments for a fellow student who asked for help on this assignment so he could understand better what each of the lines in the code is doing. No requirement to use these in the challenge.