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Start your free trialRobbie Baker
3,700 PointsI understood this video but once i added a print function to show the values it also returns None. I don't know why.
code: def my_function(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4): print(arg1) print(arg2) print(arg3) print(arg4)
my_function("Hello", "I", "love", "python")
packing example
def packer(*pkr): print(pkr) for val in pkr: print (val)
print(packer("Hello", "I", "love", "python"))
The return shows both ways to run this function but the last line returns None as well. I would like to figure out why that print function is returning both the tuple and None. It works perfect if i remove the print function as follows:
packer("Hello", "I", "love", "python")
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsTo print the result of calling a function, the function must return something. So since these functions print internally but don't return any value, their value will be "None".
Have the function return a value instead of (or in addition to) printing and then you'll see that value as the output.