You have two arguments in you function but when you call the function no
argument is set in. Take the arguments out from the function if you want to use
the the values from the user.
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> On May 1, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Olaoluwa Thomas <thomasolaol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. Please do not hesitate to provide more as I shall
> email you personally in the future.
>
> The script is made up of a function definition and its call prompting the
> user for input.
>
> The script itself takes "number of hours worked" and "hourly rate" as
> inputs and gives gross pay as a product of the two.
> As I stated in my earlier email, there is also a portion for calculating
> gross pay with considerations for overtime (> 40 hours worked).
>
> The problem was that running the code gave an error which I now do not
> remember in detail as I have moved on after having fixed it.
>
> Here's the initial email below with Sreenathan's helpful input followed by
> my amendments to the code:
> (I thought my initial email was quite self-explanatory but what do I
> know... Please read through to the end)
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Sreenathan Nair <sreenath...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Olaoluwa Thomas <thomasolaol...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The novice Python programmer is back.
>>
>> I'm trying to incorporate a function and its call in the GrossPay.py
>> script
>> that Alan solved for me.
>> It computes total pay based on two inputs, no. of hours and hourly rate.
>>
>> There's a computation for overtime payments in the if statement.
>>
>> Something seems to be broken.
>>
>> Here's the code:
>> def computepay(hours, rate):
>> hours = float(raw_input ('How many hours do you work?\n'))
>> rate = float(raw_input ('What is your hourly rate?\n'))
>> if hours > 40:
>> gross = ((hours - 40) * (rate * 1.5)) + (40 * rate)
>> elif hours >= 0 and hours <= 40:
>> gross = hours * rate
>> print "Your Gross pay is "+str(round(gross, 4))
>>
>> computepay()
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> *Warm regards,*
>>
>> *Olaoluwa O. Thomas,*
>> *+2347068392705*
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>> Hi,
>> The parameters hours and rate are required when calling the method
>> computepay ex: computepay(8, 200), so basically computepay() by itself will
>> throw an error .... Also, as a suggestion if you're gonna get hours and
>> rate via user input perhaps they can be removed from the method definition?
>>
>> ​Thanks, Sreenathan. These alterations solved it.
>
> def computepay(hours, rate):
> if hours > 40:
> gross = ((hours - 40) * (rate * 1.5)) + (40 * rate)
> elif hours >= 0 and hours <= 40:
> gross = hours * rate
> print "Your Gross pay is "+str(round(gross, 4))
> computepay(hours = float(raw_input ('How many hours do you work?\n')), rate
> = float(raw_input ('What is your hourly rate?\n')))
>
> *Warm regards,*
>
> *Olaoluwa O. Thomas,*
> *+2347068392705*
>
>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Bob Gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On May 1, 2016 8:04 AM, "Olaoluwa Thomas" <thomasolaol...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The novice Python programmer is back.
>> Welcome back. We are here to help you when you are stuck. Telling us
>> something is broken is not adequate. Tell us-what you are expecting the
>> program to do and what results you're getting.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to incorporate a function and its call in the GrossPay.py
>> script
>>> that Alan solved for me.
>>> It computes total pay based on two inputs, no. of hours and hourly rate.
>>>
>>> There's a computation for overtime payments in the if statement.
>>>
>>> Something seems to be broken.
>>>
>>> Here's the code:
>>> def computepay(hours, rate):
>>> hours = float(raw_input ('How many hours do you work?\n'))
>>> rate = float(raw_input ('What is your hourly rate?\n'))
>>> if hours > 40:
>>> gross = ((hours - 40) * (rate * 1.5)) + (40 * rate)
>>> elif hours >= 0 and hours <= 40:
>>> gross = hours * rate
>>> print "Your Gross pay is "+str(round(gross, 4))
>>>
>>> computepay()
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> *Warm regards,*
>>>
>>> *Olaoluwa O. Thomas,*
>>> *+2347068392705*
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>>> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
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