Hi,
there is one place i think you have to have a look at it and it's the
python official site.
One thing i love about python is the so well written documentation, i
remember when i was learning ruby and had to go to the official doc! it was
hard to understand for the beginner how i was. so, here
Hi Tom,
You can see what happens for yourself in the Pythontutor:
http://goo.gl/YVkh03 - step through the code by clicking on "Forward" and
see what happens. You are calling the howMany function from inside the
function itself, which is called recursion. This can be practical, but in
your case
Hi,
I think your function runs forever because the only thing it done is
calling it self when entering the for loop
when you call your function in the for loop it jump to the definition (def
howMany(aDict)) then initialise count and bond the value 0 to it then enter
a for loop then call the
On 08/04/2016 21:48, Tom Maher wrote:
Hi,
As a test I am trying to write a function that returns the sum of values
attached to one key in a dictionary. I am wondering why the code that I
wrote is returning:
"maximum recursion depth exceeded"
Here is the code:
animals = { 'a': ['aardvark'],
