Functions continuing to ru after returning something?

[Bradley Hintze]

I may be having a brain fart, but is it at all possible to have a
function first return a value then continue its calculation. Like this
simple example:

my_var = 5
def my_function():
    return my_var
    my_var +=1

This obviously won't work as written but is there a cleaver way around this.

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Bradley J. Hintze
Graduate Student
Duke University
School of Medicine
801-712-8799