On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does a function (or generator) 'do' something (based on name and parms) or > does it 'return' something based on name and parms?
If it has no side effects, then it does something, where the 'something' is returning a value. "Return" is a verb. (It can also be a noun, but in the context of functions, it's a verb.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list