Is it possible to return variables to the main function?

[Cameron McAulif]

Hi, I'm new to python, programming in general actually. I was wondering if it was possible to return variables from a function? Hmm that probably didn't make sense, i'll give an example. Lets say i had this program:

def main ():
    age = input ('What is your age in years? ')
    weeksOld = age * 52
    print 'Wow, you are at least ', weeksOld, ' weeks old!!!'
main ()
 

Is it possible to separate the calculation into a function away from main and still have it return the variable for the print statement? I'll try and show you what i mean:

def main ():
    age = input ('What is your age in years? ')
    weeksOld (age)
    print 'Wow, you are at least ', wsOld, ' weeks old!!!'
 
def weeksOld (years):
    wsOld = years * 52
    return wsOld
main ()
 

Sorry if that was hard to understand or if the question was rather nooby, as i said i'm new so try not to flame me too much, thanks!

[Mariostg]

Cameron,
Did you try it? You could answer this by yourself :)

def weeksOld (years): 
    return = years * 52 
main ()
 

[Cameron McAulif]

Haha that was actually pretty simple :), thanks heaps!