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Bruno Riina
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this question is difficult to follow because i don't know how they want me to creat the list! is it passed as the function arguments or the list is a global variable that then used inside the function?? adding and returning value is then easy.
def add_list():
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,425 PointsThe terms used to describe programming task take a while to learn.
"Make a function named add_list that takes a list", means the function can expect to be passed a list as an argument:
# define function that takes a list
def function_takes_a_list(list):
return "list is {}".format(list)
# how it will be used or called by grader
function_takes_a_list([1, 2, 3])
You don't need to create the call of the function or include initial values for the list. The grader will supply the values when checking the code.