On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:03 AM,  <kwakukwat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> pls  I want to write a function that can compute for the sqrt root of any
> number.bt it not working pls help.
> from math import sqrt
> def squareroot(self):
>     x = sqrt(y)
>     print x

The 'self' argument is a convention used in classes. You probably want
to call your argument y:

def squareroot(y):

since that's what you then pass to math.sqrt.

Chris Angelico
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