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G.I.Josh · Aug 5th, 2004, 6:48 PM

I'm having a difficult time grasping the concept of returning values in functions. Here is what I think I know. If you have a function like

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def welcome_message(name):
  print name
welcome_message(G.I.Josh)

It will store the value G.I.Josh in a variable called name. Now, if I added return G.I.Josh, what exactly would happen? Also, if I needed to get more then one variable from outside of the function into the function, how could I do that? And lastly. How can I keep variables I manipulate inside the function from going back to their orriginal value once the function is over? Thanks.

Aug 5th, 2004, 6:48 PM	#1
G.I.Josh Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Eastern U.S Posts: 51 Rep Power: 5	I'm having a difficult time grasping the concept of returning values in functions. Here is what I think I know. If you have a function like (Toggle Plain Text) def welcome_message(name): print name welcome_message(G.I.Josh) def welcome_message(name): print name welcome_message(G.I.Josh) It will store the value G.I.Josh in a variable called name. Now, if I added return G.I.Josh, what exactly would happen? Also, if I needed to get more then one variable from outside of the function into the function, how could I do that? And lastly. How can I keep variables I manipulate inside the function from going back to their orriginal value once the function is over? Thanks. __________________ http://exponentialab.blogspot.com/ - w00t, I've started a blog!

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