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In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25909369#p25909369:25hinb92 said: redwall_hp[/url]":25hinb92]Ruby can return multiple values, too. Though you're ...