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Kody S
Kody S

Reputation: 21

TypeError: content() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)

Google search, trial and error hasn't helped. Still fairly new to Python as well.

I want the function to run and print out options, and take the userInput variable and use it in another function

   def content(userInput):
      options=[
         'option 1',
         'option 2
         ]
         print '\n'.join(map(str, options))
         userInput = raw_input("> ")
         return userInput
   content()

TypeError: content() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5895

Answers (4)

Ilario Pierbattista
Ilario Pierbattista

Reputation: 3265

In the way you have defined this function, it needs to take userInput as argument. Reading your code, it seems you don't really need this (you're overwriting userInput instantly without using it), just do:

   def content():
      options=[
         'option 1',
         'option 2'
         ]
      print '\n'.join(map(str, options))
      userInput = raw_input("> ")
      return userInput
   content()

Upvotes: 0

Gahan
Gahan

Reputation: 4213

Currently I see no use of function argument userInput to be used in your code as you are over riding it with raw_input

def content(): # if you are not willing to pass anything to function then you do not need to use anything as argument of function
    options=['option 1', 'option 2']
    print '\n'.join(map(str, options))
    userInput = raw_input("> ") # whatever input you are passing in userInput as function argument will be overridden here
    return userInput

content()

Upvotes: 1

Md. Tanvir Raihan
Md. Tanvir Raihan

Reputation: 4285

Your function,

def content(userInput):
  options=[
     'option 1',
     'option 2
     ]
     print '\n'.join(map(str, options))
     userInput = raw_input("> ")
     return userInput
content()

you provide an userInput as an argument, but you executed the function without given any value of that argument i.e 

content()

In python, when you provide any argument in a function, like you provided userInput as an argument in your comment function, python expect you to provide value of that userInput argument and you did not provide it when you execute your function. Thats why its given you the error.

instead, you have to provide a value in place of your given argument like this(when executing the function)

content("any value")

or rewrite your code in this way,

def content(userInput=None):
    .......

then you can execute it like this,

content()

NOTE: in your code, you did not use userInput anywhere, so better you rewrite your code like this,

def content():
  options=[
     'option 1',
     'option 2
     ]
  print '\n'.join(map(str, options))
  userInput = raw_input("> ")
  return userInput

and then execute your function content,

content()

Upvotes: 0

Karol Gasienica
Karol Gasienica

Reputation: 2924

You defined your function with parameter userInput

def content(userInput):

And in this case when you want to use it, you need to pass that parameter.

So where you have 

content()

it should be more like

content(someVal)

or just in def content(userInput): delete userInput so it will be like:

def content():

Upvotes: 0

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