FAQ: Learn Python: Functions - I Know Kung Fu

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What does ‘py’ do in the following line:

py print sqrt(25)

As far as I can tell, it is not needed.

Thanks for any insight here!

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asking the ‘py’ results in you failing the lesson, without ‘py’ you pass, broken lesson yet again

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This bug is still there. Hope, that it’ll be fixed one day.

Good news. The narrative error has been corrected. Not a bug, just a typo, as it turns out.