On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:18:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:03 AM, <kwakukwat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> pls I want to write a function that can compute for the sqrt root of >> any number.bt it not working pls help. >> from math import sqrt def squareroot(self): >> x = sqrt(y) >> print x > > The 'self' argument is a convention used in classes. You probably want > to call your argument y: > > def squareroot(y): > > since that's what you then pass to math.sqrt. > > Chris Angelico
why even do this when simply calling sqrt is all that is needed? -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list