🔒 Why does some functions have : or () next to them?

[hollow coral]

For example:
Def my_fuction():
print(“hello world”)

[timid dust]

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[tardy thorn]

this is so that you can pass data into your functions

for example

# 'a' and 'b' cannot be accessed here since it is outside the function
def func1():
  a = 10 # These are defined inside the function, so they cannot be accessed outside the function
  b = 20 # same here
  c = func2(a, b) # but what we can do is pass those variables from inside this function to another function

def func2(a, b):
  return a + b

[magic pendant]

All function definitions start with def and end with paramaeters in brackets (.......) and a final colon :

[dusty wagon]

why only some? Have you seen some that don't have () or :?

[spark swallow]

def add(a,b):#defining the function,":" is a syntax,means u need to use it
       c=a+b
       return c
x=add(3,5)#when I do this it's called calling a function,then 3 and 5 goes and sits in 'a' and 'b' returns the sum which is c

[dusty wagon]

def should not be capitalized, and we don't use ; in python

[spark swallow]

My bad typo

[magic pendant]

Well, we mostly don't use ; in python 🙂

[dusty wagon]

sure, but it was unnecessary to have it at the end of the line like they had before the edit

[spark swallow]

Yea my bad I m on phone

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