Totally Confused: Passing variables to functions

[Terry Reedy]

"Chuck" <cdreward at riaa.com> wrote in message
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>
> I've hit a stumbling block while trying to pick up Python. I've
googled
> around, and I don't think I'm the first to have this question, but I
haven't
> been able to find an answer that explains things for me.

This same issue was discussed yesterday and the day before in another
thread.  You might read that also for more views and explanations.  My
answer to that applies to this.

TJR