what is the return type of the function?

Question

I am a java developer learning python, in java we are specifying return type.

but in python we are not specifying any return type, I think the default return type will be string. (or) we need to do by Type casting

Answer 1

def add (x, y):
z = x + y
if type(x, y) == int:
return int(z)
elif type(x, y) == str:
return str(z)
elif type(x, y) == float:
return float(z)
elif type(x, y) == list:
return list(z)
elif type(x, y) == dict:
return dict(z)

add (2, 3)
z = int(5)

add('2', '3')
z = str('23')
etc...

this is just an example code, but it should represent how return specifies the type it returns (as you can't operate on two different types).

Answer 2

python is a dynamically typed language, so you wont find the typical int x = 6, for example. you dont need to specify return types.

Answer 3

There is no default return type in python like we have in Java / php.

Check this out
def checkDefaultReturnType():
print("hello")

print(type(checkDefaultReturnType()))

It prints "<class 'NoneType'> " against print(type(checkDefaultReturnType()))