kinuthia muchane wrote: > Hi, > > I do not know what I am doing wrong. When I run the following code from > the Python prompt it executes without a murmur. But when I save it as > a .py file and try to execute it from the shell, it just returns the > prompt...actually it is all scripts that return a value which are > behaving in this manner. > > > def factorial(n): > if n <= 1: > return 1 > else: > return n * factorial(n-1) > > factorial(some number here) > > print factorial(some number here)
When you enter an expression at the interactive prompt you see the value. Not true when you run a program. Expression values must be printed. So you are doing nothing wrong. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
