Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> So by now you know there are 2 kinds of return: >> >> So the morals in short: >> >> 1. Stick to the return that works -- python's return statement -- >> and avoid the return that seems to work -- the print statement > > Please. There are not two types of return; there are two completely > different things here. Don't pretend that print is a bad form of > return. It isn't.
I strongly agree with Chris here. The OP's problem was due to confusion between print and return, and the solution is to learn the difference between printing output to the screen and returning values from a function, and under what circumstances Python will automatically print said returned values as a convenience. Conflating the two as "2 kinds of return" is an invitation to even more confusion: "which was the 'good' return again?". While it is true that both return and print are related in the sense that they are both ways of having a function produce output, that's about the end of the similarity. One might as well say that assignment is a third kind of return, because one can assign output to a global variable. (Since print does not actually exit the current sub-routine, it definitively is not a kind of return.) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
