> "kinuthia muchane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > 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. > > The >>> prompt evaluates expressions and prionts the value. > The interpreter on the other hand does not automatically print > values you ghave to explicitly tell it to print using the print > statement. > > So in your case just add the print command in front of the > function call and all will be well. > > > factorial(some number here) > > print factorial(n) > > HTH, > > > -- > Alan Gauld
Thanks, that worked. Kinuthia... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
