Python def function: How do you specify the end of the function?

Question

I\'m just learning python and confused when a \"def\" of a function ends?

I see code samples like:

def myfunc(a=4,b=6):
    sum = a + b
    return su         


        

Answer 1

Interestingly, if you're just typing at the python interactive interpreter, you have to follow a function with a blank line. This does not work:

def foo(x):
  return x+1
print "last"

although it is perfectly legal python syntax in a file. There are other syntactic differences when typing to the interpreter too, so beware.