how to print only the return values of a function?

Question

I would like to learn how to print only the return value of a function.

I.E.

def dude():
  print("Hello")
  return 1

I would like to print only the return value and not the all of the functions process. I would like to use the function and be able to use a different command to get just the values of return,without suppresing print.As print(dude()) prints Hello and the return value.

Answer 1

This seems to work better:

def dude(x,y):
    z= x+y:
    print ("Hello")
    return z

    print(str(dude(2,3))[1:len(str(dude(2,3)))-1])

While it is ugly, It works and does not break anything else and I can make it a function. It can output just the values , it would just need more work for separating values to be used by another bit of code. It is still ugly and I was hoping for a simple solution like print(dude(2,3).return) that would be clean. I find this very useful for more complex mathematical calculations I have made. With a tiny bit of work I made this a function that automatically outputs single and multiple values. the premise remained the same , str(dude()) was the easy solution.