[deftones]

This is in the first assignment at uni comp sci class and I'm already having trouble =( writing the math functions was easy, but now I can't figure this out.

#use the color and rhyme inputs in the poem
def writePoem (color, rhyme):
    print ('I\’ve never written code before, or thought about this',rhyme,'But I\’d rather get my homework done, than swim in something',color);

writePoem(brown, town)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
builtins.NameError: name 'brown' is not defined

[deftones]

Well I figured out I have to put writePoem("brown", "town"). was missing quotations.

[deftones]

Is there a way to do this without needing the quotation marks so that writePoem(brown, town) will work?

[darek9576]

brown = "brown"
poem = "poem"

function(brown,poem)

[Simown]

Well, yes. You will need quotes somewhere for the literal strings, but you can store them in named variables before you call the function i.e.:

#use the color and rhyme inputs in the poem
def writePoem (color, rhyme):
    print ('I\’ve never written code before, or thought about this',rhyme,'But I\’d rather get my homework done, than swim in something',color);
...
>>> brown = "brown"
>>> town = "town"
>>> writePoem(brown, town)
I’ve never written code before, or thought about this town But I’d rather get my homework done, than swim in something brown

[den510]

Personally, I prefer to use this method, simply because you see exactly what you're printing. I've never been a fan of commas, more of concatenation:

def writePoem (color, rhyme):
    print ('I\’ve never written code before, or thought about this '+rhyme+', But I\’d rather get my homework done, than swim in something '+color+'.')

brown, town = "brown", "town"

writePoem(brown, town)
exit()

Hope this helps, best of luck with your programming!

-Dennis