Why is my function returning "function ___ at 0x7f37c058d378"?

Question

This function:

hand_p = ''

def hand_player(card_variable):
    global hand_p
    hand_p = hand_p + str(card_variable)
    return hand_p

is returning something like function hand_player at 0x7f37c058d378.

Why is this happening?

Answer 1

You haven't called the function anywhere in your code. If you wanted to pass an argument of 'a' you could call it as follows:

hand_p = ''

def hand_player(card_variable):
    global hand_p
    hand_p = hand_p + str(card_variable)
    return hand_p

print(hand_player('a'))