anonymous Every time I try to run this code it gives me errors. I'm trying to make a function that returns the factorial of a number. I need some help: def factorial(x): x>0 if x == 1 or x==0: return 1 n = x-1 while n>0: n = x-1 m=0 m = x*n return m x-=1 if n ==1: break print factorial(4)
scorz I don't know python but this code looks a bit messy. It should be something like hmm def factorial(x): if x == 0: return 1 else: return x*factorial(x-1)
themike10452 scorz wroteI don't know python but this code looks a bit messy. It should be something like hmm def factorial(x): if x == 0: return 1 else: return x*factorial(x-1) Yep, that looks more like it. His code was nowhere near functional, I guess he doesn't know python yet either.
anonymous well yeah I'm still new to python and currently studying it and this should be my homework! Thanks a lot guys
scorz @themike Yeah it's obvious, my guess would be he's new into programming in general. @anony No problem. I am not sure if you know that, but what I did is called "recursion". What you were trying to do is "iteration".