Question

I have some code that is basically 5 print statements that i would like to call several times throughout the script. I was thinking I could save some space and make the code easier to maintain if I wrote the code once, then called it later. A function would work but it prints None after it is done and that is annoying. Any suggestions?

Here is kinda what I am trying to do…

name = "Bob"
House = "HOME"

print "hello,"
print name
print house
print "is where you are"

That is just an example, it is way more complicated than that, but i would like to put all of the print statements into a named “bucket” of sorts and then call that bucket.

And some of the code would not just be print statements, but also if statements as well.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If it prints None it is probably because you’re printing the result of the function, as well as letting the function print expressions.

e.g.

def print_stuff():
    print "Hello, World"

print print_stuff()
> Hello, World
> None

# But print_stuff prints stuff, so you don't need to print it too:

print_stuff()
> Hello, World