The most common answer is:
fill in the arguments and function body
name = “Thelas”
letter= “e”
def name_contains(name, letter):
name.find(letter)
if name.find(letter) != -1:
return True
else:
return False
print (name_contains(name, letter))
This function name_contains
is almost set up correctly to check if letter
is in name
. However, we can streamline the function by directly returning the result of the comparison without the need for an if-else
statement.
Here’s the revised version of the code:
name = "Thelas"
letter = "e"
def name_contains(name, letter):
return name.find(letter) != -1
print(name_contains(name, letter))
This version of the function checks whether letter
is in name
by using the .find()
method, which returns the index of letter
in name
if found, or -1
if it’s not found. The comparison name.find(letter) != -1
directly evaluates to True
if the letter is found and False
otherwise. This boolean value is then returned by the function.
The print
statement calls name_contains
with name
and letter
as arguments and prints the result, which will be True
if letter
is found in name
, or False
if it is not.
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