[Tutor] first post

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/02/2015 12:09, sathya kumar Prasanna wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am completely new to programming and have never had the opportunity to do
> attempt coding before. However I have started now and am facing my first
> problem.
> The code is as shown, I need to *fill in the blanks* such that when the
> code is run it gives the answer as "True".
>
> #Please help.
>
> # Make sure that the_flying_circus() returns True
> def the_flying_circus():
>      if ________:    # Start coding here!
>          # Don't forget to indent
>          # the code inside this block!
>      elif ________:
>          # Keep going here.
>          # You'll want to add the else statement, too!
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Mr. Sathyakumar Sharma,

That's easy, simply add "Return True" as the last line of your function. 
  However I suspect that you haven't asked the correct question.  Did 
you actually mean "How do I test that the call to the_flying_circus 
returns True?"?  If I'm correct in Python you normally check for 
"truthiness" as opposed to the actual values "True" and "False".  Hence:-

if the_flying_circus():
     doThis()
else:
     doThat()

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence