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[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:18:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:03 AM,  <kwakukwatiah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> pls  I want to write a function that can compute for the sqrt root of
>>> any number.bt it not working pls help.
>>> from math import sqrt def squareroot(self):
>>>     x = sqrt(y)
>>>     print x
>>
>> The 'self' argument is a convention used in classes. You probably want
>> to call your argument y:
>>
>> def squareroot(y):
>>
>> since that's what you then pass to math.sqrt.
>>
>> Chris Angelico
>
> why even do this when simply calling sqrt is all that is needed?

Good question. But without a lot more context from the OP, none of
this is really ponderable...

ChrisA