Understanding - Beginner, exercise 5

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Consider the following function in Python:

def f(s, n):
    if n < 0:
        return s
    else:
        return s + f(s, n-1)

Write down the value that is returned by the function above when called as follows: f("42", 1)

Solution

"424242"

Additional material

The runnable Python file is available online. You can run it executing the command python exercise_5.py in a shell.