[FIXED] I am having issues with getting the desired output on Spyder

Issue

The code I run:

def areatriangle(base, height):
    area = .5 * base * height
    print("Area of the triangle of base",base,"and height",height,"is", area)

The output I get:

runfile('C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/spyder/Exercises.py', wdir='C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/spyder')*

Solution

(Spyder maintainer here) runfile is the command used by Spyder to run a file in the console. So every time you run files from the Editor, you'll see it displayed in the console and there's nothing wrong with that.

Besides that, you are not seeing any other result because you're not calling the areatriangle function, you are simply declaring it and that doesn't produce any result. So, you need to add the following to your code

def areatriangle(base, height):
    area = .5 * base * height
    print("Area of the triangle of base",base,"and height",height,"is", area)

areatriangle(1, 2)

and then you'll see the following

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba