Question

I’m having a problem in calling a function that returns a result, from another function

To make it clear, my functions are:

def calculate_questions_vote(request):
    useranswer = Answer.objects.filter (answer_by = request.user)
    positive_votes = VoteUpAnswer.objects.filter(answer = useranswer)
    negative_votes = VoteDownAnswer.objects.filter(answer = useranswer)
    question_vote_rank = sum(positive_votes) - sum(negative_votes.count)
        return question_vote_rank

def calculate_replies(request):
    the_new = News.objects.filter(created_by = request.user)
    reply = Reply.objects.filter(reply_to = the_new)
    reply_rank = sum(reply)
        return reply_rank

and I want to call them in another function, so that it could return a value.
I’m calling the function form another function like this:

rank = calculate_questions_vote

Let’s say I just want for now to display the value returned by the function calculate_questions_vote.
Of course, I’m putting the rank variable in the context of the function.

My problem is that my output is:

<function calculate_questions_vote at 0x9420144>

How can I actually make it display the value returned by the function, instead of that string?

Answer 1

This is basic Python. What you are doing is simply referring to the function – assigning the function itself to another variable. To actually call a function, you need to use parenthesis after its name:

calculate_questions_vote()

In your case, you’ve defined that function as needing the request object, so you need to use that in the call as well:

calculate_questions_vote(request)