[Tutor] Need help adding a funcation

[Dave Angel]

(You top-posted, so I'm deleting all the out-of-order stuff.  in these 
forums, you should put your response after whatever you quote.)

On 12/01/2011 02:55 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> The OP has been taught but is still having an issue and all I am doing is
> asking for help. Here is what I have so far
>
> # 1) a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the
> # sum of its proper positive divisors,excluding the number itself.
> # for example, 6 is a perfect number because it is evenly divisible
> # by 1, 2 and 3 - all of it's divisors - and the sum 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
> # a) write a function, getDivisors(), that returns a list of all
> # of the positive divisors of a given number. for example -
> # result = getDivisors(24)
> # print(result)
> # would yield: "[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12]"
>
> def main():
>      x = 1
>
>      num = int(input('Please Enter a Number: '))
>      getDivisors(num)

You'll want to store the return value of getDivisors, since you have 
more work to do there.

>
> def getDivisors(num):
>      sum = 0
>      x = 1
>      #my_list[] = num

That's close.  To create an empty list, simply do
         my_list = []

>      for num in range(1, num, 1):
>
>          if num % x == 0:
>              print(num)
>              sum += num
Why are you summing it?  That was in another function.  In this one, 
you're trying to build a list.  Any ideas how to do that at this point 
in the function?
>
>      print('The sum is ', sum)
>      if sum == num:
>          print(num, 'is a perfect number')
>      else:
>          print(num, 'is not a perfect number')
None of these lines belong in your function.  All it's supposed to do is 
get the divisors, not to study them in any way.

>
> main()



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DaveA