Why does we cannot have 2 return statement?

#1

def addsubtract(a,b):
return a+b
return a-b

why does we cannot have 2 return statement ?

#2

Hi @coding123c
Although syntactically correct, this piece of code does not make a whole lot of sense, though: the second return statement will never be executed, as the first return statement will terminate the function and go back to wherever the function was called.

What you can do if you want to return 2 values from a given function is :
you may chance the above code as follow :

def addsubtract(a,b):
    return a+b, a-b

Hope this might helps :slight_smile:

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