Week 5 Ch 6

Question 1

What does return do?

Answer 1

Returns from function and uses following expression as the value

Question 2

When a return statement is executed what happens?

Answer 2

Function terminates

Question 3

Code after a return statement is called what?

Answer 3

Dead code

Question 4

What is composition when referring to functions?

Answer 4

Calling one function from within another function

Question 5

What is a guardian?

Answer 5

Programming pattern that uses a conditional statement to check for and handle situations that could cause errors

Question 6

Explain this for loop.

For a in range (1,3):
Print(a)

Answer 6

A range of numbers is made 1,2,3 then for each item a variable is assigned to it. During the for loop, print will print the value of a for each time it parses through the range. It ends before it reaches 3 and doesn’t print that because that’s how Python works.

Question 7

Do fruitful functions have a return value of None?

Answer 7

No they do not