easy question, how to double a variable

Mon Sep 21 23:09:22 EDT 2009

On 2009年09月21日, David C Ullrich <dullrich at sprynet.com> wrote:
> On 2009年9月20日 13:27:07 -0700, daggerdvm wrote:
>>> Write the definition of a function twice , that receives an int
>> parameter and returns an int that is twice the value of the parameter.
>>>> how can i do this
>> I don't think this can be done in Python.
>> Looking at the Subject line I thought your problem was going
> to be easy: There's only one float type in Python, so at least
> in most implementations simply converting to float will
> suffice to "double" a variable.
>> But you actually want to return twice the value. I don't see
> how to do that.

It's easy:
def twice(i):
 return i
 return i
-- 
Grant