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So far, local assignment hasn't increased the expressive power of our function
definitions. It will do so, when combined with other control statements. In
addition, local assignment also plays a critical role in clarifying the meaning
of complex expressions by assigning names to intermediate quantities.
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1.5 Controlence function could be written as a single
expression, as shown below, but the return expression is more complex.
>>> def percent_difference(x, y):
return 100 * abs(x-y) / x
>>> percent_difference(40, 50)
25.0
<span>So far, local assignment hasn't increased the expressive power of our function
definitions. It will do so, when combined with other control statements. In
addition, local assignment also plays a critical role in clarifying the meaning
of complex expressions by assigning names to intermediate quantities.
1.5.4 Conditional Statements
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>>> abs(-2)
2
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