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Python Functions: Definition and Usage

The document discusses Python functions including: 1) Built-in functions like int(), input(), print(), etc. and defining custom functions to make programs easier to develop, save code, and allow reusability. 2) How to define a function with arguments and default values, as well as dynamic arguments. 3) Non-void functions that return values and how to define them using the return command. 4) Calling functions from libraries by importing the library name and from specific directories. 5) The scope of local and global variables and how the global keyword allows setting a local variable to a global one.

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Python Functions: Definition and Usage

The document discusses Python functions including: 1) Built-in functions like int(), input(), print(), etc. and defining custom functions to make programs easier to develop, save code, and allow reusability. 2) How to define a function with arguments and default values, as well as dynamic arguments. 3) Non-void functions that return values and how to define them using the return command. 4) Calling functions from libraries by importing the library name and from specific directories. 5) The scope of local and global variables and how the global keyword allows setting a local variable to a global one.

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Chapter 6
Function

Function
• Python built-in functions: int(), input(), print(), str(), etc
• We can define a function in Python
• Tujuan function:
• Make it easy to develop programs
• Save the number of lines in the source code
• Make it easier for teamwork management to work on projects
• The program becomes more structured/flow, and the program is easy to
understand
• Easier to make documentation
• Reusability -> function can be reused in other programs

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How to define a function

How to define a function

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Arguments with default value

Dynamic Argument

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Non-void Function
• Void Function: a function that only executes the instructions as
defined, no value is returned from the function
• Non-Void Function: a function that executes the instruction as
defined, and there is a value returned from that function. This value
will be used for other calculations.
• Characteristics of non-void function:
• There is a return command inside the function
• The function call is inside an expression

How to define a non-void Function

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Calling functions in a library


• A library is a module which contains some functions only
• We can call functions inside of a library, but first we should import
name of the library first

myscript1.py

hello.py or…

“hello” library

myscript2.py

Calling functions in a library


• How if the library resides in a certain directory?
Example:
library hello.py resides in a directory “modules/”

Here is how:

from modules.hello import *

or

import modules.hello

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Scope (Local Variable vs Global Variable)


Example 1 Example 3

Example 2

• Local variable is a variable defined in a function


• Global variable is a variable defined in main program (not in a
function)
• Can you identify the different effects of using global vs local
variables from given examples??

Scope (Local Variable vs Global Variable)


Example 4 Example 5

Why a is still 10 not 4 when printed out?


‘global’ is used when we want to set a local var to global var

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