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Reputation: 25

Syntax Error: 'return' outside function: my indentations seem to be correct

So first of all im writing a program that will total up all of the values in a list / array and heres what i got so far

    def go( ann ):
    total = 0
for i in range(0,len(ann)):
    total = total+ann[i]
    return total

print ( go( [-99,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12345] ) )
print ( go( [10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,-99] ) )
print ( go( [10,20,30,40,50,-11818,40,30,20,10] ) )
print ( go( [32767] ) )
print ( go( [255,255] ) )
print ( go( [9,10,-88,100,-555,1000] ) )
print ( go( [10,10,10,11,456] ) )
print ( go( [-111,1,2,3,9,11,20,30] ) )
print ( go( [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,0,-2,-989] ) )
print ( go( [12,15,18,21,23,1000] ) )
print ( go( [250,19,17,15,13,11,10,9,6,3,2,1,-455] ) )
print ( go( [9,10,-8,10000,-5000,1000] ) )

now what i may belive is wrong is probably my code and has to do something with the range function? anything will help on why i keep getting 'return' outside function

I have tried looking at other post but they didnt help too much

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (2)

Hartek66
Hartek66

Reputation: 93

Indentation is the problem here. Always remember indentation is important in Python. Your for loop is not indented properly, i.e. it's outside the function where your total variable is declared.

def go( ann ):
    total = 0

    for i in range(0,len(ann)): #first indentation mistake fixed
        total = total+ann[i] #second indentation mistake fixed
    return total

From your print statements, the output should be:

12301
-44
-11568
32767
510
476
497
-35
-947
1089
-99
6011

Upvotes: 1

Suyash Krishna
Suyash Krishna

Reputation: 241

Your indentation is incorrect - The loop statement should be indented in the same line as other statements and the loop body should be indented one level inside the loop statement. The return statement will have the same indentation level as the other statements.

Try this:

def go( ann ):
    total = 0
    for i in range(0,len(ann)):
        total = total+ann[i]
    return total

print ( go( [-99,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12345] ) )
print ( go( [10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,-99] ) )
print ( go( [10,20,30,40,50,-11818,40,30,20,10] ) )
print ( go( [32767] ) )
print ( go( [255,255] ) )
print ( go( [9,10,-88,100,-555,1000] ) )
print ( go( [10,10,10,11,456] ) )
print ( go( [-111,1,2,3,9,11,20,30] ) )
print ( go( [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,0,-2,-989] ) )
print ( go( [12,15,18,21,23,1000] ) )
print ( go( [250,19,17,15,13,11,10,9,6,3,2,1,-455] ) )
print ( go( [9,10,-8,10000,-5000,1000] ) )

Upvotes: 1

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