Taken from the url.... http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ch05.xhtml#index15
"The built-in functions we have used, such as abs, pow, and max, have produced results. Calling each of these functions generates a value, which we usually assign to a variable or use as part of an expression. biggest = max(3, 7, 2, 5) x = abs(3 - 11) + 10 But so far, none of the functions we have written has returned a value. In this chapter, we are going to write functions that return values, which we will call fruitful functions," So what's the difference between generating a value and returning a value? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
