"rickhg12hs" <rickhg1...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:2ff16113-4f79-4dcf-8310-35d2b91e8...@o11g2000yqj.googlegroups.com... > Would a kind soul explain something basic to a python noob? > > Why doesn't this function always return a list? > > def recur_trace(x,y): > print x,y > if not x: > return y > recur_trace(x[1:], y + [x[0]]) >
shouldn't it be return recur_trace(x[1:], y + [x[0]]) otherwise the recursive call returns nothing Charles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
