On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:18:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> 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 > > why even do this when simply calling sqrt is all that is needed?
Good question. But without a lot more context from the OP, none of this is really ponderable... ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
