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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list