Complete the function definition to return the hours given minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sample output with input: 210.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3.5
def get_minutes_as_hours(orig_minutes):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
print(orig_minutes\/60)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
minutes = float(input())<\/p>\n\n\n\n
print(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes))<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I get the correct output but an unexpected extra line after. I don\u2019t see what is wrong with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the corrected version of your code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The original version of your code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n produces the correct numerical result (e.g., Let\u2019s break this down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The line You are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, your output looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To fix this, replace Now the function returns<\/strong> the computed value (e.g., correctly prints the result once<\/strong>, without any Complete the function definition to return the hours given minutes. Sample output with input: 210.0 3.5def get_minutes_as_hours(orig_minutes): print(orig_minutes\/60) minutes = float(input()) print(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes)) I get the correct output but an unexpected extra line after. I don\u2019t see what is wrong with it. The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Here’s the corrected version of your code: \ud83d\udd0d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}def get_minutes_as_hours(orig_minutes):\n return orig_minutes \/ 60\n\nminutes = float(input())\nprint(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udd0d Explanation (300+ words):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
def get_minutes_as_hours(orig_minutes):\n print(orig_minutes \/ 60)\n\nminutes = float(input())\nprint(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n3.5<\/code> for 210.0<\/code> input), but it also prints an unexpected extra line<\/strong> (specifically, None<\/code>) after the result. This happens due to how the print()<\/code> function and function return values work in Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n1.
print()<\/code> inside the function:<\/h4>\n\n\n\nprint(orig_minutes \/ 60)<\/code> prints<\/strong> the value to the screen but does not return<\/strong> it. Since the function doesn\u2019t include a return<\/code> statement, Python automatically returns None<\/code> by default. So when you do:<\/p>\n\n\n\nprint(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n
orig_minutes \/ 60<\/code> inside<\/strong> the function,<\/li>\n\n\n\nNone<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n3.5\nNone\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n2. Correct Approach \u2014 Using
return<\/code>:<\/h4>\n\n\n\nprint()<\/code> inside the function with a return<\/code> statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\nreturn orig_minutes \/ 60\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n3.5<\/code>) to the caller, and then:<\/p>\n\n\n\nprint(get_minutes_as_hours(minutes))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nNone<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSummary:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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return<\/code> when you want to send a result back from a function.<\/li>\n\n\n\nprint()<\/code> only for displaying output, not<\/strong> for returning values.<\/li>\n\n\n\nprint()<\/code> on a function that doesn\u2019t return anything (or returns None<\/code>) results in that None<\/code> being printed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"