What value does this function return?

January 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

What value does this function return? Java has the same behavior.


def test():
    try:
        return 0
    finally:
        return 1

7 Replies

  1. Tamer Yousef

    January 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    in .Net you cannot have a return statement inside the finally block. it makes sense.

    -Tamer

  4. mb

    January 2, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Python returns 0.

  5. mb

    January 2, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Sorry, it’s 1.

  6. Jim Russell

    January 3, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    I guessed “1″ before I tried it, and my guess held up. My internal reasoning was the old mnemonic from when I first learned Java years ago — “the ‘finally’ block runs NO MATTER WHAT”.

  7. A

    January 5, 2009 at 4:28 am

    Ruby gives 1 too.


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