Return value of print statement in Python

Question

In one book I found thatprint(print("any text")) returns the size of text inside the function. i.e. 8 Here

But in another book I found out that it returns None.

So which answer is true? Or whether the 2nd answer is just an updated answer...?

Answer 1

print() function doesn't return anything (so it's None). When you're printing the output of a function which returns None, sure the output is None. So the 2nd book is correct.

>>> print(print())

None

If you want get the length of a string, you should use len() function:

>>> print(len("any text"))
8