Function passed as an argument returns none

Shiva shivaji_tn at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 1 18:37:13 EDT 2014


Hi,
I am learning Python (version 3.4) strings.I have a function that takes in a
parameter and prints it out as given below.

def donuts(count):
  if count <= 5:
    print('Number of donuts: ',count)
  else:
    print('Number of donuts: many')
    return

It works fine if I call 
donuts(5)

It returns:
we have 5 DN  (as expected)

However if I do :

test(donuts(4), 'Number of donuts: 4')


where test is defined as below:

def test(got, expected):
  print('got: ', got, 'Expected:' ,expected)
  if got == expected:
    prefix = ' OK '
  else:
    prefix = '  X '
  print (('%s got: %s expected: %s') % (prefix, repr(got), repr(expected)))


Only 'None' gets passed on to parameter 'got' instead of the expected value
of 4.
Any idea why 'None' is getting passed even though calling the donuts(4)
alone returns the expected value?

Thanks,
Shiva.




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