"pass" statement in python

Question

Good morning all,

I have a question. In Replit, most of exercises have "pass" statement after "return". Do we use this statement as a placeholder for future code or does it also have another purpose?

Thank you in advance for answers.

Answer 1

If you define an empty function and you don't write nothing inside it, Python will interpret it as an error. By inserting pass, we let Python know that we purposely want the function to be empty. It's a placeholder for new code and a syntactically correct way to close that initial def.