Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
You've already received a lot of answers and guidance, but here is on more point... On 09/25/2015 12:03 PM, Cody Cox wrote: [snip] this I am not sure about, I set Kilo=get_input(kilo), ... Watch your capitalization! Kilo is _NOT_ the same as kilo. Case is significant in Python (as wel

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/25/2015 2:50 PM, Cody Cox wrote: Awesome guys! Thank you for helping me understand this material. Parameters and Arguments are tricky. Looks like its mainly a game of connect the dots with variables. lol. If you stick with the convention that parameters are names in the header of a functi

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Denis McMahon
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:03:43 -0700, Cody Cox wrote: > #Design a modular program that asks the user to enter a distance in > kilometers and then covert it to miles # Miles = Kilometers * 0.6214 #!/usr/bin/python # main calls the input routine to get the km value, then # calls the conversion rout

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Cody Cox
On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 1:26:02 PM UTC-7, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:15:26 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: > > >No. You are going to return whatever is called 'experience' and > >whatever is called 'monsters' and assign them to 'count' and 'monsters'. >

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:15:26 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >No. You are going to return whatever is called 'experience' and >whatever is called 'monsters' and assign them to 'count' and 'monsters'. ARRGH! I meant assign them to 'count' and 'animals'. (I read that 3 times and _stil

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:50:10 -0700, Cody Cox writes: >Awesome guys! Thank you for helping me understand this material. Parameters >and Arguments are tricky. Looks like its mainly a game of connect the dots >with variables. lol. > >When you return a variable, it needs somewhere to go,

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Cody Cox wrote: > def main(): > #set the variable to 0.0, makes it a float and creates a place in memory > for the variable. > kilo = 0.0 This is addressing a symptom, not the actual problem. Initializing kilo here prevents Python from complaining when yo

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Cody Cox
#Cody Cox #9/16/2015 #Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter #Design a modular program that asks the user to enter a distance in kilometers and then covert it to miles # Miles = Kilometers * 0.6214 def main(): #set the variable to 0.0, makes it a float and creates a place in memory fo

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Cody Cox
Oh, i also noticed that declaring the variable I was using and setting it =0.0 helped me out, seems the program had "garbage" in it... (that's what my professor said.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread Cody Cox
Awesome guys! Thank you for helping me understand this material. Parameters and Arguments are tricky. Looks like its mainly a game of connect the dots with variables. lol. When you return a variable, it needs somewhere to go, and that's why it goes to the next call into the argument area if I n

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-25 Thread alister
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:45:06 -0700, codywcox wrote: > I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters > work, Most likely why my code will not run. > Can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong? > > ''' > Cody Cox 9/16/2015 Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter D

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-24 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 09/24/2015 11:45 AM, codyw...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters work, Most likely why my code will not run. Can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong? ''' Cody Cox 9/16/2015 Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter Design a modu

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-24 Thread John Gordon
In <7ad8941d-04aa-42c5-82e9-10cdf02ab...@googlegroups.com> codyw...@gmail.com writes: > I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters > work, Most likely why my code will not run. Can anyone elaborate on what > I am doing wrong? > def get_input(kilo): >kilo = floa

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-24 Thread MRAB
On 2015-09-24 19:45, codyw...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters work, Most likely why my code will not run. Can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong? ''' Cody Cox 9/16/2015 Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter Design a modular

Re: Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-24 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:45 PM, wrote: > I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters > work, Most likely why my code will not run. > Can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong? > > ''' > Cody Cox > 9/16/2015 > Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter > Design

Learning Modules, Arguments, Parameters (imma noob)

2015-09-24 Thread codywcox
I seem to be having a problem understanding how arguments and parameters work, Most likely why my code will not run. Can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong? ''' Cody Cox 9/16/2015 Programming Exercise 1 - Kilometer Converter Design a modular program that asks the user to enter a distance