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Python

Posted by Siddharth Pande
Siddharth Pande
9,046 Points

return in python

please explain to me in the code below:

def get_guess(bad_guess, good_guess):
          while True:
                guess = input("enter your guess. > ")
                if ..................
                elif...............
                elif...................
                else:
                      return guess

does the "return guess" breaks the loop?

1 Answer

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

does the "return guess" breaks the loop?

Yes. By design, while True loop is going to keep running until it hits a return statement; break keyword can be used to terminate the loop as well.

Another thing I should point out is that, when writing python code, we don't mix 8 spaces & 6 spaces indentation together; you should indent the python code using 4 spaces throughout.

Siddharth Pande
Siddharth Pande
9,046 Points

thanks for you answer @William Li