new to python and programming at large
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 10:18:11 EST 2013
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:03 AM, <kwakukwatiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> pls I want to write a function that can compute for the sqrt root of any
> number.bt it not working pls help.
> from math import sqrt
> def squareroot(self):
> x = sqrt(y)
> print x
The 'self' argument is a convention used in classes. You probably want
to call your argument y:
def squareroot(y):
since that's what you then pass to math.sqrt.
Chris Angelico
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