[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 50, Issue 63

[kinuthia muchane]

> "kinuthia muchane" <muchanek at gmail.com> wrote
> 
> > I do not know what I am doing wrong. When I run the following code 
> > from
> > the Python prompt it executes without a murmur. But when I save it 
> > as
> > a .py file and try to execute it from the shell, it just returns the
> > prompt...actually it is all scripts that return a value which  are
> > behaving in this manner.
> 
> The >>> prompt evaluates expressions and prionts the value.
> The interpreter on the other hand does not automatically print
> values you ghave to explicitly tell it to print using the print
> statement.
> 
> So in your case just add the print command in front of the
> function call and all will be well.
> 
> > factorial(some number here)
> 
> print factorial(n)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan Gauld

  Thanks, that worked.
  
  Kinuthia...