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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Create a Function

Spencer Kane
Spencer Kane
234 Points
Posted by Spencer Kane
Spencer Kane
234 Points

AssertionError

Hi, I keep getting an Assertion Error when I try to run the code for this. It says that my code doesn't work for the argument zero, but when I look at it on the outside, it seems like it does. Any fixes?

squaring.py 
def square(number):
    squared = number * number
    print(squared)

1 Answer

Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Points
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Points 
def square(number):
    squared = number * number
    return squared
    print(squared) #have not asked this to do so, you've been asked to return

#now take off the last line of yours print(squared)
#and try calling the function, with the argument 3