[Tutor] eazy python question involving functions and parameters

[Steve Willoughby]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:19:08PM -0700, daggerdvm wrote:
> assume that  jade2 is a function that expects two  int parameters and returns
> the value of the larger one. 

This really smells like a school assignment, which as a general policy
we don't solve for you.

But as a hint in the right direction, you might look at how parameters
are passed to functions in Python (and it's irrelevant that they are
int values as far as parameter passing goes, but that will simplify
your expression for the sake of keeping the assignment easy to do).

You might want to look at some built-in functions which will look at
a list of values and tell you which is biggest or smallest.

What do you think you can do with those pieces?

> 
> Also assume that four variables,  population1 ,  population2 ,  population3
> , and  population4 have already been defined and associated with  int
> values. 
> 
> Write an expression (not a statement!) whose value is the largest of 
> population1 ,  population2 ,  population3 , and  population4 by calling 
> jade2 . 
> 
> how can i do this???
> 
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