Talk:Python en:Functions

From Notes

I saw your todo, and I think it would be more pedagogical if you put the section about VarArgs in a later chapter, and everything else that is related to stuff that we haven't learned. I think the most important thing about this book is that it teaches you things step by step, and putting something that is too advanced there will have people confused.

In short: You have my support.

I disagree. I think it needs to be made clearer that this information is advanced enough that it can be skipped over until the chapter that the information is needed on. Then link back, or duplicate the text. I say this because this seems to be the logical place for this information.

However, I can't read the code. I can't back track to find out what += means. I'm fairly sure it mean increase by a unit, but I'm not sure because += and -= have not been mentioned before this point. This is frustrating. Thanks for the book, btw

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In the part saying: "/1/All variables have the scope of the block they are declared in /2/starting from the point of definition of the name."

it seems to me that the second half is just restating what the first half already said, I'm not exactly sure that this is the case though. I hope someone with better understanding of what is trying to be said here can clarify the situation.

(And sorry for the messy way I'm editing this talk page, I promise to learn how to do it more cleanly if someone can point me to info on how to use this wiki...)

It means that you cannot use the name before actually assigning it some value, which is a reasonably common mistake. -- Swaroop 18:00, 17 September 2009 (UTC)