Basic python difficulty

Question

Just started and was playing with functions and if statements but I can’t get it to return true, it keeps just returning with 8.

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def f(x):
print((x**2) + 4)

x = 2

if f(x)==8:
print("true")
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Answer 1

Hi, you need to return the calculation result (instead of printing it) done by the function back to the call of the function f():

def f(x):
#print((x**2) + 4)
return x**2 + 4

x = 2
if f(x)==8:
print("true")

# output: True