I am trying to define a function in python but I am getting an error, here is the code,
def func greet_user():
"""Display a simple greeting."""
print("Hello!")
greet_user()
Then I get the error, "invalid syntax" . Any help would be appreciated.
Python enforces strict indentation, all the content of a python function, including the comments, needs to be equally indented. To fix your case, you should:
1) remove "func" from 'def func greet_user():',
2) tab the docstrings,
3) untab when you call the function outside of the function.
Also docstrings needs three quotation marks """string""" not ""string ""
After you fix indentation you need to wrap ""display a simple greeting"" in triple quotes.
Then change def func greet_user(): to def greet_user():
Try this:
def greet_user():
print("""Display a simple greeting.""")
print("Hello!")
greet_user()
Output:
Display a simple greeting.
Hello!
Remove func and move greet_user() out of the function (unindent)
def greet_user(): #display a simple greeting
print("Hello!")
greet_user() #prints 'Hello!'
def funcis not valid; just writedef. And strings are delimited with either one quote character, or three - you can't use two.