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Writing your own functions (4/5) | Functions
Learn Python from Scratch
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Learn Python from Scratch

Learn Python from Scratch

1. The basics
2. Arithmetic operations
3. Common data types
4. Conditional statements
5. Other data types
6. Loops
7. Functions

bookWriting your own functions (4/5)

By this time we always returned some information in the function body. But rarely we don't need to return and save any values after function execution, for example, if we need to just print something.

Remember our dictionary with some countries' information? Let's write a function that will print all the information we needed with only two arguments: dictionary and country name.

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# data countries_dict = {'USA': (9629091, 331002651), 'Canada': (9984670, 37742154), 'Germany': (357114, 83783942)} countries_dict["Brazil"] = (8515767, 212559417) countries_dict["India"] = (3166391, 1380004385) # define a function def country_information(d, name): print("Country:", name) print("Area:", d[name][0], 'sq km') print("Population:", round(d[name][1]/1000000, 2), 'mln') # test our function country_information(countries_dict, "Brazil") country_information(countries_dict, "Germany")
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Task

Define a function people_information with one argument d (this will be people_d dictionary!) and name (which will be the name of the person - key in this dictionary) which prints the following output:

Name:
Age:
Height:

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bookWriting your own functions (4/5)

By this time we always returned some information in the function body. But rarely we don't need to return and save any values after function execution, for example, if we need to just print something.

Remember our dictionary with some countries' information? Let's write a function that will print all the information we needed with only two arguments: dictionary and country name.

1234567891011121314
# data countries_dict = {'USA': (9629091, 331002651), 'Canada': (9984670, 37742154), 'Germany': (357114, 83783942)} countries_dict["Brazil"] = (8515767, 212559417) countries_dict["India"] = (3166391, 1380004385) # define a function def country_information(d, name): print("Country:", name) print("Area:", d[name][0], 'sq km') print("Population:", round(d[name][1]/1000000, 2), 'mln') # test our function country_information(countries_dict, "Brazil") country_information(countries_dict, "Germany")
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Task

Define a function people_information with one argument d (this will be people_d dictionary!) and name (which will be the name of the person - key in this dictionary) which prints the following output:

Name:
Age:
Height:

Switch to desktopSwitch to desktop for real-world practiceContinue from where you are using one of the options below
Everything was clear?

How can we improve it?

Thanks for your feedback!

Section 7. Chapter 5
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bookWriting your own functions (4/5)

By this time we always returned some information in the function body. But rarely we don't need to return and save any values after function execution, for example, if we need to just print something.

Remember our dictionary with some countries' information? Let's write a function that will print all the information we needed with only two arguments: dictionary and country name.

1234567891011121314
# data countries_dict = {'USA': (9629091, 331002651), 'Canada': (9984670, 37742154), 'Germany': (357114, 83783942)} countries_dict["Brazil"] = (8515767, 212559417) countries_dict["India"] = (3166391, 1380004385) # define a function def country_information(d, name): print("Country:", name) print("Area:", d[name][0], 'sq km') print("Population:", round(d[name][1]/1000000, 2), 'mln') # test our function country_information(countries_dict, "Brazil") country_information(countries_dict, "Germany")
copy

Task

Define a function people_information with one argument d (this will be people_d dictionary!) and name (which will be the name of the person - key in this dictionary) which prints the following output:

Name:
Age:
Height:

Switch to desktopSwitch to desktop for real-world practiceContinue from where you are using one of the options below
Everything was clear?

How can we improve it?

Thanks for your feedback!

By this time we always returned some information in the function body. But rarely we don't need to return and save any values after function execution, for example, if we need to just print something.

Remember our dictionary with some countries' information? Let's write a function that will print all the information we needed with only two arguments: dictionary and country name.

1234567891011121314
# data countries_dict = {'USA': (9629091, 331002651), 'Canada': (9984670, 37742154), 'Germany': (357114, 83783942)} countries_dict["Brazil"] = (8515767, 212559417) countries_dict["India"] = (3166391, 1380004385) # define a function def country_information(d, name): print("Country:", name) print("Area:", d[name][0], 'sq km') print("Population:", round(d[name][1]/1000000, 2), 'mln') # test our function country_information(countries_dict, "Brazil") country_information(countries_dict, "Germany")
copy

Task

Define a function people_information with one argument d (this will be people_d dictionary!) and name (which will be the name of the person - key in this dictionary) which prints the following output:

Name:
Age:
Height:

Switch to desktopSwitch to desktop for real-world practiceContinue from where you are using one of the options below
Section 7. Chapter 5
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