KS3 Procedures and functions Procedures in Python When writing programs, we should avoid long, repetitive code. Procedures and functions help to keep our programs simple and short.

While some older code may use Python 2, it’s no longer being supported, according to the Python Software Foundation. One key difference between the two is the syntax behind certain statements.

Let’s call the getArea () function that we just created to calculate the area of an object. We start by typing the function name followed by parentheses and then entering the required data in the ...