Subroutines

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Kalle Svensson <kalle at gnupung.net> writes:

> 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.

I believe the "literal" translation would be

def myfunc(*_):
  print _[0]

but such a function is bad style in python, and a design flaw in perl :)

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Glyph Lefkowitz
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