[Solved] Function creation – “Undefined name” – Python

So it turns out I just misunderstood what was being asked. I’ve had it clarified by the course leader now.

As I am now fully aware, a function definition needs to be told when a string is being entered, hence the quote marks being required.

I admit full ignorance over my depth of understanding of how it all works – I thought you could pretty much put any assortment of letters and/or numbers in as an argument and then you can manipulate them within the function definition.

My ignorance may stem from the fact that I’m quite new to Python, having learned my coding basics on C++ where, if I remember correctly (it was well over a year ago), functions are defined with each argument being specifically set up as their type, e.g.

int max(int num1, int num2)

Whereas in Python you don’t quite do it like that.

Thanks for the attempts at help (and ridicule!)

Problem is sorted now.