On Sep 24, 5:51 am, Iain King <iaink...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 23, 7:36 pm, David C Ullrich <dullr...@sprynet.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:34:53 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:50:23 -0500, David C Ullrich wrote: > > > >> But you actually want to return twice the value. I don't see how to do > > >> that. > > > > What? > > > > Seriously? > > > You're saying it _can_ be done in Python? They must have added > > something to the standard library again. I mean how can you return > > twice a value without a twice function to start with? I've tried. > > You'd think > > > def twice(n): > > return twice(n) > > > would work, but I get this really long error message. > > > > You're not just yanking the OP's chain??? > > > That would be cruel. I mean the guy has enough problems already... > > Sorry, there is no 'twice' builtin. I think what you are looking for > is: > > def twice(n): > return return n > > Iain
Actually, what he wants is: (def twice (x) (+ (once x) (once x))) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
