hi all: oh ya, my function does in fact take no input and doesn't change anything, and all i wanted to was to call itself a 2nd time, yes, so I solved it a few hours back ,and it's good enough for me for now :)
Thanks for the response!!! On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > On 22/05/17 17:11, Michael C wrote: > > > I have a function to return (x,y) value, but sometimes it would naturally > > unable to return those 2 values properly. I know what recursion is, and I > > think all I got to do is to call this function a 2nd time and the problem > > would go away. > > Sorry, but that is too vague to help us in any way. > Recursion is not about calling the function a second time, > it is about calling the function from within the same function. > How or whether that would help solve your problem is not at > all obvious. > > You need to ideally show us your code or at least give us more > information about what is going wrong. > What kind of values are you expecting back? > What do you mean by "naturally unable to return those"? > Why not? What does it return instead? > How are the values being returned(or calculated/obtained)? > > > > How do I do recursion? The function basically look like this > > > > def return_xy(): > > blah blah blah > > return x,y > > That looks like any function that takes no inputs and returns > a tuple. It does not help us to help you in any way. > > The fact that it takes no inputs and does not apparently > modify any state variables means recursion would be pointless > - in fact it would lead to an infinite loop and lock up your > program. > > We need more detail, and unless you have a good reason not > to, you should just show us your code. We are ok with you > posting anything up to, say, 100 lines long... > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
