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Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion

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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:24:22 PM UTC-7, Arturo B wrote:
> Hi, I'm doing Python exercises and I need to write a function to flat nested lists


> So I know what recursion is, but I don't know how is 
>
>                        flatten(i)
>  
> evaluated, what value does it returns?
> 

In this case, flatten always returns a list. When it hits the recursion, it calls itself to get another list, that it uses to extend the current list.

Josh

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Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Arturo B <a7xrturodev@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 16:24 -0700
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 16:59 -0700
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-26 01:07 +0100
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-26 00:10 +0000
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-26 00:26 +0000
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-25 21:12 -0400
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 21:04 -0700
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-26 14:18 +0000
    Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-26 14:23 +0000
      Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-09-28 13:24 -0700
  Re: Understanding how is a function evaluated using recursion rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-29 20:41 -0700

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