[FIXED] In google colab's jupyter notebook, why can i call a function before defining it? Why is it not an error?

Issue

When I enter the same code in a python IDE instead of the notebook it causes an error as expected.

Solution

The first thing that I could think of is you ran the cell earlier. From how I understand Google Colab, if you run the cell it stores that function/ 'remembers it' so if you re-run the cell it won't give an error.

Same reason why running a cell that changes data can only work once.

But I might be wrong.

As long as your code works I wouldn't worry too much about it. You can always place the function in a new cell above the one where you call the function. I would mainly do this because it looks better.

Answered By - AIDevLuca