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Introduction To Python Lesson 5 Summary Notes

This document introduces Python functions, explaining their definition, purpose, and syntax. It highlights the benefits of using functions, such as code decomposition, reusability, and extensibility. Additionally, it provides examples of function implementations in Python, including a greeting function, a function to calculate the area of a rectangle, and a function for withdrawing money.

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Introduction To Python Lesson 5 Summary Notes

This document introduces Python functions, explaining their definition, purpose, and syntax. It highlights the benefits of using functions, such as code decomposition, reusability, and extensibility. Additionally, it provides examples of function implementations in Python, including a greeting function, a function to calculate the area of a rectangle, and a function for withdrawing money.

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Introduction to Python

Python functions
Summary Notes
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Contents
3 Lesson objectives

3 What are Python functions?

3 Why use Python functions?

3 Function syntax

3 Function example

4 Source code

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Lesson objectives
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

• Define Python functions


• Demonstrate the use of functions

What are Python functions?


A Python function is a block of statements that performs some task and sometimes returns data for further
computation. The goal is to put some commonly or repeatedly done tasks together and create a function to avoid
writing the same block of code over and over again for different inputs, we can do the function calls to reuse a block
of code contained in it over and over again.

Why use Python functions?


There are various reasons why programmers use functions, this includes the following:

• Code decomposition
• Reusability
• Extensibility

Function syntax

Function example

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Source code
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# Greeting function
def greeting(name):
print("Hello " + name + " how are you doing?")

greeting("Alexis")

# calculating the area of a rectangle function


def calculate_area_rect(length, width):
area = length * width
print(area)

calculate_area_rect(2, 5)

# withdraw money function


def withdraw_money(amount):
balance = 1000
current_balance = balance - amount
return current_balance

print("After your withdrawal, you have $" + str(withdraw_money(600)) + " remaining")

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