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Reputation: 45

How to get the return values of function with arguments?

I'm working on a python exercise that requires getting the string return values of function. Here is the sample code that is related to the one I'm currently working on.

def main():
    x = 'the quick'
    y = 'brown fox'
    return x, y

def function1(x, y):
    if x == 'the quick' and y == 'brown fox':
        return 'jump'
    else:
        return 'lazy'

def function2():
    if a == 'jump':
        print('good boy')
    else:
        print('bad boy')

function2(*function1(*main()))

I'm getting positional argument error. How to return the string properly for other function?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 191

Answers (2)

Lei_Bai
Lei_Bai

Reputation: 88

At first you have to specify parameters for function2: I guess you want to define function2 in this way:

    def function2(a):
        if a == 'jump':
        print('good boy')
    else:
        print('bad boy')

And you may want funtion2 output 'good boy', In this way, you could try:

function2(function1(*main()))

Which will give the output as you want.

Upvotes: 0

Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah

Reputation: 2534

You have not specified that Function2() takes any arguments.

I got your code to run by specifying four function arguments (while only using one):

def main():
    x = 'the quick'
    y = 'brown fox'
    return x, y

def function1(x, y):
    if x == 'the quick' and y == 'brown fox':
        return 'jump'
    else:
        return 'lazy'

def function2(a, b, c, d):
    if a == 'jump':
        print('good boy')
    else:
        print('bad boy')

function2(*function1(*main()))

This returns:

bad boy

Upvotes: 6

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