return in a function

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Python dictionary.

dict = {'alex' : 1,
        'larry' : 2, 
        'mark' : 3}

print(dict['mark'])

the example i gave involves testing various different variables. maybe it's a bad example. the "bunch of code" can't be changed. the question is about how to have function A call function B and have function B effect the return all the way to the caller of function A. put the "bunch of code" inside function B so function A can just call function B in all those places it had that "bunch of code". but what about those returns? can function B do a return for function A? not really. see the complication?