Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python

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Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2541-7_14

14. Functions

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

Let us first define the function and try to know why function is being used in Python. Consider this code :

<code>#!/usr/bin/python3              def main():                  print("This is main function.")        if __name__ == "__main__":                  main()        </code>

And the output is:

<blockquote>This is main function.              </blockquote>

What does that mean? First of all, let us understand what function does mean. A function is used in any programming language to reuse code. Programmers are lazy and so they don't want to write again and again. And it is not a good idea to write the same thing again and again. So the concept of reusability ...