How To Execute Code AFTER a Return Statement in Python

Usually in a function, nothing happens after a 'return' statement. But with some magic, we can force stuff to happen even after a return statement executes.

My coding setup:

Cheers

[pschweitzer]

I did some tinkering with modifying the return value in the finally block. Integers, and presumably other immutable types, are not modified. Adding a key/value pair to a dictionary did result in the returned dictionary having that pair. Furthermore I used threading.Timer() to delay the adding of the pair. The initially returned dictionary did not have the pair but after the timer period, the dictionary did contain the pair.

I have no idea if there are any real world applications for this but it was fun to discover.

[trp]

This is actually very useful thank you

[anonymous]

After executing code at 3:50 the expected op should be:
1
2
#text_in_finally_block
hello

but in your op, hello is missing.... why it is not read by compiler even if it has been returned by the method?

[Andrumen]

The reason why you never ever ever use a 'bare' except'! A program has the potential of never exiting if you use a bare except. Return statements are exit exception events with code zero, more specifically "basic exception system events" of which the bare exception clause catches most of them. If you didn't understand, the lesson is: Never never never ever do this!

[Doggy_Styles_Coding]

i always feel sleepy after typing time.sleep like the code comanded me to sleep