how to stop a function execution like...

[Dave Angel]

Gaudha wrote:
> On Jun 16, 4:45 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>   
>> Gaudha wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there any built-in function to stop execution of a function similar
>>> to stop the program execution by sys.exit?
>>> In the example below, I want to skip statement 2... if the 'if'
>>> condition is satisfied.
>>> Don't advice me to put statement 2 in 'else' block. That's not my
>>> intention.
>>>       
>> Why not? It's from all you tell us perfectly the right thing to do.
>>
>>     
>>> May be this a simple task. Sorry to say I'm novice in Python,
>>> gentlemen...
>>>       
>>> def funct :
>>>     if (.....) : statement 1
>>>     statement 2
>>>       
>> def funct():
>>     if ...:
>>        statement 1
>>        return
>>     statement 2
>>
>> would also work. But it is not really "better" than using else.
>>
>> Diez
>>     
>
> I considered 'return' as meant only for returning any value. Thank you
> sir...
>
>   
return with no arguments will return a value of None, same as falling 
off the end of the function.  That can be important to know, as the 
caller can therefore test for None.