question about the output: if shout is placed before the last print statement, why does it give you a "no output" if you run the

Question

def shout(word):
"""
Print a word with an
exclamation mark following it.
"""
shout("spam")
print(word + "!")

Answer 1

Because you made an infinate recursive function. If its called just once, it will continue to call itself over and over since you put a function call of the same function, within said function.

Try:

def shout(word):
return word + '!'

Then when you type...

print(shout(spam))

Output will be:

spam!