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[guptapooja1906]

hi bucky,
I did not understood the topic return values. could you please help me to explain with another example.

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[yeyeto2788]

Sorry for just commenting here out of the blue.

Maybe I can also help here. I'll use same example so you can have a better idea.

def allowed_dating_age(my_age):
    girls_age = my_age/2 + 7
    return girls_age

buckys_limit = allowed_dating_age(27)
creepy_joe_limit = allowed_dating_age(49)
print("Bucky can date girls", buckys_limit, "or older")
print("Creepy Joe can date girls", creepy_joe_limit, "or older")

Take into account that when you setup a value when calling the function like in

buckys_limit = allowed_dating_age(27)

what you are actually doing is putting the values into the function

def allowed_dating_age(my_age):
    girls_age = my_age/2 + 7
    return girls_age

so let me change the value on my_age variable so you can have a better picture

def allowed_dating_age(27):
    girls_age = 27/2 + 7
    return girls_age

this 27 will be divided by 2 and then we'll add 7, the formula will be like this: (27/2) + 7 = 20,5. The result of the formula will be stored on girls_age variable so the return girls_age will give to buckys_limit variable that value (20,5).

If you want another example would be:

def sum(a,b):
    c = a + b
    return c

Here you are just doing a sum of two variable and return the value of that operation.

I hope it helps a bit.
Regards.