Only magic methods can return any value, is it so?

Question

What I am seeing till now is that only magic methods are returning values, which other methods are just editing those.
Somebody clarify pls..

Answer 1

All kinds of functions, be they free or part of a class (aka methods), can return or not return values!

It depends on if there's a return statement or not:

def f():
print('Hello')

returns nothing.

def f():
print('Hello')
return 1

returns 1.

(__init__ is a 'magic method' and is not allowed to have a return value - so you see it has nothing to do with mm or not mm.)