On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 16:06 -0400, bob gailer wrote: > kinuthia muchane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > > > def factorial(n): > > if n <= 1: > > return 1 > > else: > > return n * factorial(n-1) > > > > factorial(some number here) > > > > > print factorial(some number here) > > When you enter an expression at the interactive prompt you see the > value. Not true when you run a program. Expression values must be > printed. So you are doing nothing wrong. Thanks, Bob, it worked the first time. It was staring me in the face the whole time! Thanks once again.
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