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Jamesyyy
Jamesyyy

Reputation: 109

How to print a function which has been passed in as a parameter?

Please bear with me! I'm used to programming in C and I just started learning python.

I have a main function and a stub function as follows:

def main_function(string):
    print(string)

def stub_function():
    return 'some random string'

I want to pass in my stub_function into my main_function and ideally be able to print out 'some random string'.

main_function(stub_function)

But I keep getting:

<function stub_function at 0x7f21f07e0d08>

I've tried searching but I can't seem to find anything that I can understand. What is going on here and how can I fix it? Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 135

Answers (1)

andole
andole

Reputation: 286

You must call the function for it to return the value.

main_function(stub_function())

Upvotes: 1

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