Introduction to Python for Engineers and Scientists: Open Source Solutions for Numerical Computation

© Sandeep Nagar 2018

Sandeep NagarIntroduction to Python for Engineers and Scientistshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3204-0_8

8. Functions and Loops

Sandeep Nagar¹ 

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New York, USA

 

8.1 Introduction

A function is a part of a computer program where a number of programming statements is clubbed as a block. It can be called when desired. This enables a modular approach to programming tasks and has become very popular among programmers nowadays since modules can be edited with ease. Functions receive input parameters and return output parameters . When a function is being used, the function name is called along with values for input parameters. After execution, a set of output parameters is returned. Python functions can be defined at any place in ...