https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e0692f11650acb6c2eed940eb94650b4703c072e
commit: e0692f11650acb6c2eed940eb94650b4703c072e
branch: main
author: John Marshall <[email protected]>
committer: asvetlov <[email protected]>
date: 2024-11-14T07:47:24Z
summary:

Document that return-less user-defined functions return None (#126769)

Co-authored-by: Andrew Svetlov <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Carol Willing <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/reference/expressions.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index decde0d297cf59..3eaceae41f7eaf 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1156,7 +1156,8 @@ a user-defined function:
    first thing the code block will do is bind the formal parameters to the
    arguments; this is described in section :ref:`function`.  When the code 
block
    executes a :keyword:`return` statement, this specifies the return value of 
the
-   function call.
+   function call.  If execution reaches the end of the code block without
+   executing a :keyword:`return` statement, the return value is ``None``.
 
 a built-in function or method:
    .. index::

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