What does the Return function do in Python?

[Yoo Song Won]

Doing some school work in Python.

 

Just wondering what 'return Instruction' does in this subroutine. Why is it there? I see the return function occurs a lot throughout the program returning a variable of some kind.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[PeterBocan]

It's a return statement, it returns the value stored in the variable called "Instruction"

[Yoo Song Won]

1 minute ago, PeterBocan said:

It's a return statement, it returns the value within the variable called "Instruction"/

What do you mean by 'return'?

[Lurick]

It sends the output of what's given for input back to the other function that called it.

[PeterBocan]

Just now, Yoo Song Won said:

What do you mean by 'return'?

imagine function as being some sort of tube, a chunk of code that is separated and put aside to be used on many different places in your program. You put some inputs into it and you expect something back from that function.

[Yoo Song Won]

20 minutes ago, PeterBocan said:

imagine function as being some sort of tube, a chunk of code that is separated and put aside to be used on many different places in your program. You put some inputs into it and you expect something back from that function.

 

22 minutes ago, Lurick said:

It sends the output of what's given for input back to the other function that called it.

Thanks a lot! You guys helped me understand it now!