Question

I am trying to return (execute) a function from another file in an if statement.
I have read that the return statement will not work, I was hoping someone would know what statement would allow me to call an outside function.

The function creates a sandbox but if one exists I want to pass the if statement.

This is a small snippet of code I used.

import mks_function  
from mksfunction import mks_create_sandbox  
import sys, os, time  
import os.path  

if not os.path.exists('home/build/test/new_sandbox/project.pj'):
 return mks_create_sandbox()  
else:  
 print pass  

Answer 1

let’s see what docs say:

return may only occur syntactically nested in a function definition, not within a nested class definition.

what you’re trying to do, I guess is:

from mksfunction import mks_create_sandbox  
import os.path

if not os.path.exists('home/build/test/new_sandbox/project.pj'):
    mks_create_sandbox()