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Predefined functions

Learning Intentions

  • Understand the term 'predefined function'

  • Identify and use appropriate predefined functions

Success Criteria

  • Be able to explain the term predefined function
  • Be able to identify and describe the predefined functions specified at National 5 level

Predefined functions

  • A pre-defined function carries out an operation or calculation using the data we give (pass) it and returns a single value.  The functions listed below are relevant to the course content for National 5:
    • Round
    • Length
    • Random
  • The SQA sometimes refers to built-in object functions as predefined functions, when in actual fact they are not. If you want to find out more about this, look up object methods in Python.

An example: the YASS language

Random

  • The random predefined function generates a random number between a range in Python:

import random

#Generates a number between 10 and 100
print(random.randint(10, 100))

Round

  • The round function rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places.

x = 3.145

#Will give us 3.15
print(round(x, 2))

#Will give us 3.0
print(round(x, 0))

Length

  • The length function is used to calculate the length of an array or the length of a string.

fib = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89]
#Should print 10
print (len(fib))

lower and upper

  • The lower and upper functions turn a string to lowercase or uppercase.

x = "John"
y = x.lower()
z = x.upper()

print(y)
print(z)

In your notes, write down an example of how each of the predefined function shown before could be used in Python

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