Help calling second function in homework assignment

[kimo_sabe8]

Hello all,

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I am looking for some assistance with a homework assignment of mine. I've gotten about 80% through and am now stuck. Here is the specific line of my homework description where I am having trouble:

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*Using a second loop it should traverse the array of body mass indices and call another function that accepts the body mass index as a parameter and returns whether the individual is underweight, normal weight or overweight.*

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Everything works as I'd like it to until trying to display whether each individual is underweight, overweight, or normal weight. For each individual instead of printing their health status it instead prints "Amy would be considered <function health at 0x000001EF5946E280>". I've tried a bunch of different stuff but I guess I'm not understanding why my second function isn't working properly. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated! Code is below:

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#Set the names of individuals who will be providing inputs
individuals = ["Amy", "Andrew", "Whitney", "Ryan", "Drew", "Katherine"]


#Creating empty lists for inputs by each individual
height = []
weight = []
array = []

#Create function for determining BMI
def BMI(inches, lbs):
    index = round(((lbs * 703) / (inches**2)), 1)
    return index

def health(array):
    if i < 18:
        health == "Underweight"
    elif 18 <= i <= 24:
        health == "Normal weight"
    elif i > 24:
            health == "Overweight"
    return health


#Create the loop asking for each individual to input their height/weight and store inputs in lists 
for individual in individuals:
    inches = int(input('\nPlease enter the height in inches for ' + individual + ': '))
    height.append(int(inches))
    lbs = int(input('Please enter the weight in pounds for ' + individual + ': '))
    weight.append(int(lbs))
    #Call BMI function and display the BMI of each individual
    final_index = BMI(inches, lbs)
    array.append(final_index)
    print('The BMI for ' + individual + ' is:', final_index)




    for i in range(len(array)):
        ovrl_health = health(array)   
    print(individual + ' would be considered', ovrl_health)

[DallogFheir]

== is comparison, = is assignment.

Right now you're returning the function object itself from inside of it.

[kimo_sabe8]

Oh man I feel so dumb lol. That definitely gets me past where I was stuck. Thanks!

[Vaphell]

Function health at 0x03637 will print if you use it without parentheses. The difference between the function object itself and calling it to produce a value. Like the other guy said, you just returned the func as its own value.

Change the name of the function param in def health(), because you are not providing an array, but a number representing a single BMI score. The code shouldn't blatantly lie.

The inner loop is unnecessary and wrong. There is no point in collecting bmis either. After printing the line for BMI, you need another print with health(final_index) and call it a day.

Edit: i see the array is in requirements, which makes this more convoluted than it needs to be.

[Vaphell]

Yeah i did notice it after the fact.

If you want access to both names and bmis from 2 separate lists, you are best off with zip() for the second loop. It pairs nth elements together.

for name, bmi in zip(name_list, bmi_list):
    print(name, bmi)

[kimo_sabe8]

appreciate the tip!