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Python

Posted by Dantee Fluellen
Dantee Fluellen
1,499 Points

Return statement is not printing.

""" A Functional Breakfast """ def mix_and_cook(): print('Mixing the ingredients') print('Pouring the mixture into a frying pan') print('Cooking the first side') print('Flipping it!') print('Cooking the other side')

def make_omelette(ingredient): mix_and_cook() omelette = 'a {} omelette'.format(ingredient) return omelette

def make_pancake(): mix_and_cook() pancake = "a delicious pancake" return(pancake)

make_omelette('bacon')

why isn't my return statement not printing out.

1 Answer

Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points
Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points
  1. You call make_omelette('bacon')
  2. The code inside make_omellete(ingredient) runs and calls mix_and_cook() and outputs all the print messages.
  3. You create a string a bacon omelette' and return it.
  4. Back on your make_pancake() the first method just run mix_and_cook() however, you didn't catch the return statement (the string created on step #3) and you are therefore losing that output.
  5. You are further creating another string "a delicious pancake", assigning it to a variable called pancake and returning it, but you are also not doing anything with that return value which also gets lost in turn.

Side note: return statements don't get printed on their own, unless you invoke the print() function. Return, simply gives back the value(s) back to the caller.

Dantee Fluellen
Dantee Fluellen
1,499 Points

yeah thanks i found that out. the video i on linkin learning i was following i forgot that he was in the python shell and not the ide. (Is it called an ide?)

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

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