Subroutines

[Kalle Svensson]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, j wrote:

> For example how would a perl subroutine below be in python.
> sub myfunc {
> print $_[0];
> }

I'm not very good at perl, but I believe you want to print the first
argument to the function. In this case

def myfunc(arg):
    print arg

would be what you want. I suggest you Read The Fine Manual, starting with
the tutorial, where functions are discussed in sections 4.6 and 4.7.

Python docs - http://www.pythonlabs.com/doc/manuals/python2.0/
Tutorial - http://www.pythonlabs.com/doc/manuals/python2.0/tut/tut.html

Regards,
  Kalle
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