Pyhton strange function

Question

As I know if in a function we have the "return" command the lines after that will be ignored.
But in this code:

https://code.sololearn.com/c3R3zB6JvW1O

I wonder to know why the first return is ignored and the second one works?

Answer 1

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/1760175/?ref=app

Answer 2

It looks like python is splitting the try catch finally block into seperate part which each can have a return statement.

Because the finally block will be called if the try block fails or dosnt fail. So most likely the function will return 1 and then it will overide that 1 with a 2.

Further testing is interesting here :)

Answer 3

It is interesting that the try block runs completely and then finally block runs also. :)

Answer 4

It means that if "return" will be in a try block it dose not return anything until try block evaluates completely and then the last value will be return.

Very interesting that try block is in a higher place than return.