I’m trying to understand why the outer print returns None.
>>> a = print(print("Python"))
Python
None
>>> print(type(a))
<class 'NoneType'>
I noticed:
>>> a = print("hey")
hey
>>> type(a)
<class 'NoneType'>
Can anyone explain what goes on here generally? Thanks!
Answers:
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Method 1
The print() function returns None. You are printing that return value.
That’s because print() has nothing to return; its job is to write the arguments, after converting them to strings, to a file object (which defaults to sys.stdout). But all expressions in Python (including calls) produce a value, so in such cases None is produced.
You appear to confuse printing with returning here. The Python interactive interpreter also prints; it prints the result of expressions run directly in on the prompt, provided they don’t produce None:
>>> None >>> 'some value' 'some value'
The string was echoed (printed) to your terminal, while None was not.
Since print() returns None but writes to the same output (your terminal), the results may look the same, but they are very different actions. I can make print() write to something else, and you won’t see anything on the terminal:
>>> from io import StringIO
>>> output = StringIO()
>>> print('Hello world!', file=output)
>>> output.getvalue()
'Hello world!n'
The print() function call did not produce output on the terminal, and returned None which then was not echoed.
Method 2
The function print comes from C language that choose “by design” uses “0” (zero) to indicates success after an script execution. Furthermore all the projects based on this concept like linux, the shell and the python language uses this to inform to the “caller” of a method if was successfully executed or not.
The most commom error at internet is the code 404 – Not found. RFC 2616
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