Question

How to return an object from a function in Python?

Answer 1

The return statement makes a python function to exit and hand back a value to its caller. The objective of functions in general is to take in inputs and return something. A return statement, once executed, immediately halts execution of a function, even if it is not the last statement in the function.

Answer 2

The return statement makes a python function to exit and hand back a value to its caller. The objective of functions in general is to take in inputs and return something. A return statement, once executed, immediately halts execution of a function, even if it is not the last statement in the function.

Functions that return values are sometimes called fruitful functions.

def sum(a,b):      return a+b sum(5,16)

Output

21

Everything in python, almost everything is an object. Lists, dictionaries, tuples are also python objects. The code below shows a python function that returns a python object; a dictionary

# This function returns a dictionary def foo():      d = dict();      d['str'] = "Tutorialspoint"      d['x']   = 50      return d print foo()

Output

{'x': 50, 'str': 'Tutorialspoint'}