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Peter Ong
3,668 PointsWhat does the def mean?
def is a function in the code challenge
1 Answer
Benjamin Barslev Nielsen
18,958 Pointsdef is not a function. def is a keyword indicating that you want to define a function, i.e., the syntax for function declarations in Python are:
def functionname( parameters ):
This means that loopy is a function in the coding challenges, since it has this form:
def loopy(items):
I hope this makes sense.