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Python

Posted by Muhammad Umar
Muhammad Umar
7,906 Points

HELP! CONFUSED WITH PARAMETERS In python

I am a little bit confused with how parameters work. and what they do

1 Answer

akoniti
akoniti
1,410 Points
akoniti
akoniti
1,410 Points

Hi Muhammad,

Parameters were at first confusing for me as well, but they're actually pretty simple at least at a high level.

I look at them as placeholders in a function, for data you plan to pass to it when the function is called. For example, in this simple function:

def simple(x,y):
    print (x, y)

...x and y are placeholders for values you'll pass in the main body of your code.

So if we ran:

print (simple("purple", 55))

The program would print:

purple 55

As you can see, when the function is called, x and y are replaced with the values we pass in the call.

Does that make sense?

Louise St. Germain
Louise St. Germain
19,425 Points

Hi akoniti,

Just changed this from a comment to answer so it can be voted on. Thanks for responding!