damn On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Xander Solis <xrso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Python list, >> >> Noob here with a newbie question. I'm reading and working on the exercise of >> the book, Learn Python the Hard way 2.0. When I use this code, I get "None" >> on the output. My question is why does this happen? >> >> def get_numbers(first_num, second_num, operator): >> >> if operator == 'add': >> print first_num + second_num >> elif operator == 'minus': >> print first_num - second_num >> elif operator == 'divide': >> print first_num / second_num >> elif operator == 'multiply': >> print first_num * second_num >> >> print "%r" % (get_numbers(1, 2, 'minus')) >> print "%r" % (get_numbers(1+3, 2+9, 'add')) >> print "%r" % (get_numbers(10, 2, 'divide')) >> >> Output: >> >> C:\code\python>ex19.py >> -1 >> None >> 15 >> None >> 5 >> None >> 7.5 >> >> -- >> >> Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> Regards, >> >> Xander >> > > printing something just writes the value to th
I hate when I accidentally hit send early. Anyway, Michael already gave you the reason- print and return two different things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
