[Tutor] Why not to use include?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/9 W W <srilyk at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks, Wayne, I am actually aware of this method. But it seems that
>> what I really want _is_ a function, and not a simple include.
>
> When you say function, exactly what are you referring to? Because
> really all a function *is* is a set of statements that
>
> takes input*
> does something*
> gives output*
>
> *optional
>
> For instance, in PHP, include('header.php') is a function that works
> similar to the few lines of code I wrote earlier.
>
> the input to the include function is the filename, the process or
> "does something" is it opens the file, and the output is returning it
> into the php file.
>

I was doing this in PHP:
$title="Page title";
include"/path/to/header.php";

In Python I suppose that I will do something like this:
makeHeader("Page title")

I would define makeHeader() in a class, so that I could use it (and
other functions) across multiple pages.

Dotan Cohen

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