Just to be clear, I was referring to these two lines greet = compose_greet_func()
greet_someone = greet On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:15:46 AM UTC+8, Max Nathaniel Ho wrote: > Example 1 > > def compose_greet_func(): > def get_message(): > return "Hello there!" > > return get_message > > greet = compose_greet_func() > print greet() > > > Example 2 > > def greet(name): > return "hello "+name > > greet_someone = greet > print greet_someone("John" > > In Example 1, the function compoe_greet_func is assigned to the variable > greet, and () is included at the end of the function. > > However, in Example 2, the function greet is assigned to the variable > greet_someone but () is excluded at the end of the function. > > Does the () matter when assigning functions to variables? > > Thank you! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list