Which list am I appending to and returning?
nside of our new function called list_extender we work with the list provided as an argument: lst. This is the list we append to and then, on the next line, return in its entirety.
def function_name(parameter_list):
# Append to the list using list_name.append(value)
# Return the entire list, not just the new value
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For those who have a syntax problem, its probably a font type error. Is not ‘1st’. The first letter is an l (lowcase L), wich aparently is very similar to the number one on this font.
Hey!
In chapter lists and functions, in exercise 11
I am unable to directly return the appended list (return lst.append(9)).
I’m having to return lst separately in a diff line, is this normal?
Also why am I unable to directly return the lst?
n = [3, 5, 7]
# Add your function here
def list_extender(lst):
lst.append(9)
return lst
print list_extender(n)
… is a statement, not an expression. return cannot handle statements, only expressions and values.
To be more accurate, .append() has no return value apart from None, since it is not assignable. return then sees None as the return value.
Thank you. I was driving myself nuts with this.
Thank you so much for this. this one drives me crazy because i thought it was 1st and not sure why it’s an error.
Python (and other languages’) variables cannot begin with a number.