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  problem with function leonardo selmi <l.selmi@icloud.com> - 2013-03-21 19:31 +0100
    Re: problem with function "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2013-03-21 20:11 +0000

#41659 — problem with function

hi all,

i wrote the following code:

def find(word, letter):
    index = 0
    while index < len(word):
        if word[index] == letter:
            return index
        index = index + 1
    return -1

if i run the program i get this error: name 'word' is not defined.  how can i solve it?

thanks!

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leonardo selmi wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i wrote the following code:
> 
> def find(word, letter):
>     index = 0
>     while index < len(word):
>         if word[index] == letter:
>             return index
>         index = index + 1
>     return -1
> 
> if i run the program i get this error: name 'word' is not defined.
> how can i solve it?
> 

What does your call to find look like? I called it with:

find("word", 'd')

and it returned 3, as expected.

If I call find with

find(word, 'd')

I get an error, as expected, since I have not assigned a string to the
name word.

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