Registered Linux User : 256848 Failure isn't an option -- it comes bundled with Microsoft Windows -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristinn Didriksson Sent: 13 November 2006 16:51 To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] <function animals at 0x662f0> what does it mean? Hello, This is my first program calling functions :) It worked nicely except for the message above. Can anyone explain what the message means. Thanks, Kristinn Program ----------------------------- # a program that prints the lyrics for Old Mcdonal had a farm for 5 different animals. # this will have two functions: oldMac and animals # two functions will be passed: animal and sound def animals(animal, sound): # print out the lyrics calling the subroutine for aminals print "Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh!" print "And on the farm he had a ", animal + ", Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh!" print "With a", sound + ",", sound, "here and a" , sound + ",", sound + " there." print "Here a", sound + ", there a", sound + ", everyehere a", sound + ",", sound + "." print "Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh!" print return animals def oldMac(): print animals("cow", "moo") print animals("pig", "oink") print animals("horse", "neigh") print animals("dog", "woof") print animals("cat", "meow") oldMac() ------------------------------ Output ----------------------------- Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! And on the farm he had a cow, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! With a moo, moo here and a moo, moo there. Here a moo, there a moo, everyehere a moo, moo. Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! <function animals at 0x66030> Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! And on the farm he had a pig, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! With a oink, oink here and a oink, oink there. Here a oink, there a oink, everyehere a oink, oink. Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! <function animals at 0x66030> Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! And on the farm he had a horse, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! With a neigh, neigh here and a neigh, neigh there. Here a neigh, there a neigh, everyehere a neigh, neigh. Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! <function animals at 0x66030> Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! And on the farm he had a dog, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! With a woof, woof here and a woof, woof there. Here a woof, there a woof, everyehere a woof, woof. Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! <function animals at 0x66030> Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! And on the farm he had a cat, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! With a meow, meow here and a meow, meow there. Here a meow, there a meow, everyehere a meow, meow. Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-igh, Ee-igh, Oh! <function animals at 0x66030> ------------------------------- I don't think you need the 'return animals' in the animals function. It is just displaying where the aniaml function is in memory. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
