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[Elliot Temple]

On Jun 4, 2005, at 2:13 AM, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> Elliot Temple wrote:
>
>> I want to write a function, foo, so the following works:
>>
>> def main():
>>     n = 4
>>     foo(n)
>>     print n
>>
>> #it prints 7
>>
>
> What's wrong with:
>
> def foo(n):
>     return 7
>
> def main():
>     n = 4
>     n = foo(n)
>     print n
>
> Anything else (including the tricks involving mutable objects that  
> will
> no doubt be posted) will result in ugly, hard to maintain code.

Nothing is wrong with it in this case.  I just want to know if Python  
can do what I said.

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/


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